حين ينفض الإنسان عن نفسه غبار حياته وشظاياها، لن يبقى إلا سؤال واحد صلب ونقيّ: أكان خيرًا أم شرًّا؟ هل أحسنتُ أم أسأتُ؟
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?”John Steinbeck — East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus (1952)
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