أشدّ ظلاماً حين ينطفئ النور مما لو لم يكن قد أضاء قط.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”John Steinbeck — The Winter of Our Discontent (2008)
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74