H L Mencken
"“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”"
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"“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”"
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The user wants an eloquent Arabic (Fusha) translation of the English quote: "Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
I need to capture the essence and poetic tone, not just a literal word-for-word translation.
Let's break down the meaning:
- "Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction": This implies that the perceived strangeness of truth is not inherent, but rather due to our unfamiliarity with it. If we were more accustomed to truth, it wouldn't seem so bizarre compared to invented stories.
- "once we got as used to it": This is the condition for the above. Familiarity breeds acceptance, and what seems strange becomes normal.
Key concepts:
- Truth (الحقيقة)
- Fiction (الخيال، القصص، الأساطير)
- Stranger than (أغرب من)
- Cease to be (لن تعود، ستتوقف عن)
- Quickly (سريعًا، سرعان ما)
- Get used to it (نعتاد عليها، نألفها)
Drafting attempts and considerations:
Attempt 1 (More literal):
سرعان ما ستتوقف الحقيقة عن أن تكون أغرب من الخيال، بمجرد أن نعتاد عليها.
* "ستتوقف عن أن تكون" is a bit clunky.
* "بمجرد أن" is okay, but maybe something more elegant for "once we got as used to it."
Attempt 2 (Focus on "strangeness" and "familiarity"):
لن تبدو الحقيقة أغرب من الخيال سرعان ما ألفناها.
* "لن تبدو" is good.
* "ألفناها" (we became familiar with it) is a good fit for "got used to it."
* "سرعان ما" can precede"
H L Mencken
A Little Book In C Major
"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom."
"لا بد أن نكون مستعدين لدفع ثمن الحرية."
H L Mencken
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
"إن مجتمعًا يتألف من أفراد جميعهم قادرون على التفكير الأصيل سيكون على الأرجح لا يُطاق."
H L Mencken
"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."
"الشرف هو ببساطة أخلاق الرجال السامين."
H L Mencken
"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously."
"ليست المادية، كما يزعم الوعّاظ، هي آفة العالم الكبرى، بل المثالية. فالناس يجنون على أنفسهم حين يبالغون في تصديق رؤاهم وأوهامهم."
H L Mencken
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
"يكفي الشعر أن يسحر، أما النثر فيجب عليه أن يقنع."
H L Mencken
"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
"كل امرئ يرى في أقاربه، وخاصة أبناء عمومته، سلسلة من الكاريكاتيرات المشوهة لذاته."
H L Mencken
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"لن تتوقف الحرب أبدًا حتى يولد الأطفال بأدمغة أكبر وغدد كظرية أصغر."
H L Mencken
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
"إني لأرى أن كل سلطة شرٌ مستطير"
H L Mencken
"All government, of course, is against liberty."
"كل حكومة، بطبيعتها، مناوئة للحرية."
H L Mencken
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"غالبًا ما تكون أسوأ الحكومات هي أشدّها اد"
H L Mencken
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"إن أخطر رجل على أي حكومة هو ذاك القادر على التفكير في الأمور... دون اكتراث بالخرافات والمحرمات السائدة. ويكاد حتمًا يصل إلى استنتاج مفاده أن الحكومة التي يعيش في ظلها غير أمينة، مجنونة، ولا تُطاق."
H L Mencken
"One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable."
"من أشد أوهام البشر سذاجةً فكرةُ خلود الصداقة، أو على الأقل دوامها مدى الحياة، وأن أي فعل ينهيها هو وصمة عار بشكل ما."
H L Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"إن الغاية القصوى للسياسة العملية هي إبقاء العامة في حالة ذعر دائم (ومن ثم تتوق لقيادتها إلى بر الأمان) عبر تهديدها بسلسلة لا متناهية من الأشباح، وكلها وهمية."
H L Mencken
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
"من المستحيل تصور الكون تديره إله حكيم وعادل وقدير، لكن من السهل جداً تخيله تديره هيئة من الآلهة."
H L Mencken
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
"بل أشد على القرد العادي أن يصدق أنه انحدر من إنسان."
H L Mencken
"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
"مهما قيل في الوصايا العشر، يبقى عليك أن تعود د"
H L Mencken
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
"الرجال ينعمون بحياة أفضل بكثير من النساء؛ فهم"
H L Mencken
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
"متى ما شرع الزوجان في التباحث حول"
H L Mencken
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
"إنها الثقة المتبادلة، لا المصلحة المشتركة وحدها، هي ما يربط وشائج العلاقات الإنسانية. فأصدقاؤنا قلما ينفعوننا، لكنهم يمنحوننا شعوراً بالأمان. والزواج ما هو إلا تدبير لتحقيق الغاية ذاتها."
H L Mencken
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