141. One shouldn't cry beyond capacity, for then one can't laugh within it.
142. Who doesn't marvel at the work you love to do— no matter how much they may love you, being happy with them becomes nearly impossible.
143. I have been initiated into water's solitude. And now you threaten to kill me with thirst!
144. Unemployed by trade, hatred by obsession.
145. Playing fakir with their mouth, plotting schemes in their mind.
146. Those who need something never stop talking about it. If they need blood, they'll want to draw it from your body, refusing to hear whether you have any blood left in you at all.
Those who need blood— if you suffer from anemia, they'll think badly of you for no reason at all!
147. I didn't come close, just smiled a little from afar. Even that you found criminal!
148. Husband and wife's unrest, children's peace, household's exhaustion.
149. If you don't want it, how can your hand reach for it?
If you can't do it, how can your hand manage?
What isn't inside— even with hands, how can it emerge?
Will you scribble anything that comes to mind?
If scribbling is all you do, what is this hand for?
150. What I haven't received to this day— you take that away! What will never be yours— you leave that behind!
151. Don't love me, but don't treat my love with such contempt.
Without it, how would you get this sweet pleasure of neglecting me?
152. Because you didn't smile when you saw me, I still begin reading from the last page of every book.
153. Caught red-handed, the thief smiled and said, "Whatever little you had, I only took that!" But what about the things you never had that he took as well, even after you gave them— what of that?
154. Even when stepping through mud, people place their feet carefully— when you stepped across this heart, you weren't nearly so careful!
155. Drawing a rose? Why the brush in hand? Where are the thorns?
156. You are my second love. My first love? Your smile!
157. Ungrateful wife, spineless husband, perpetual sorrow.
158. Even a butterfly is better than me— leaving one flower for another, it knows exactly how to adapt!
159. Those who lack the mental strength to admit their own mistakes— living with them is like death.
160. A girl whose father is useless secretly wants a useless husband.
161. Once life's meaning was three words: We are well.
Today too life's meaning is three words: Life passes by.
162. Is he really mad? Or has he been drinking?
Someone you don't know at all— you give only two options to understand him!
163. If you want to win, don't think about how far you've come, think about how much farther you need to go.
164. What's the point of marrying into a good family? The person you marry might not be good!
What's the point of not marrying into a bad family? The person you marry might actually be good!
165. Those who must live with someone who doesn't bring out their best— how unlucky they are!
166. I'm with you not because I love you; but because the one I love wants me to stay with you!
167. Trying to keep the home's affection, had to abandon the moon's embrace.
168. At different times I am different.
I love you because when you're beside me I remain exactly as I love to be.
169. What I am— none of you see.
In the face of someone like me, you search for me.
170. If you love me, don't live with me— live with what I live with; that will be enough.
171. The more you probe a person, the more you lose them.
172. I don't want love; I only want as much as I love you— that much you should love yourself.
173. Your youness, my meness, our distance.
174. When life can no longer answer questions, only then does one think of death.
After that, no memories remain. After that, no questions remain.
175. Looking into my child's face I keep reassuring myself: Yes, your face is beautiful too!