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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
― George Carlin

“حين ينتهي الحُب , أَدرك انه لم يكن حُباً
الحبّ لا بد أن يُعاش , لا أن يُتذَكر!”
― محمود درويش

“أحتاج إلى مسطرة
أصل عليها إلى الضفة الأخرى
من هامش النسيان
ريثما يتكفل جمر الوقت
بإحراق هذه الصفحة”
― فاطمة إحسان اللواتي

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“الغياب شكل من أشكال الحضور، يغيب البعض وهم حاضرون في أذهاننا أكثر من وقت حضورهم في حياتنا”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“نحن لا نكافئ الآخرين بغفراننا ذنوبهم، نحن نكافئ أنفسنا، ونتطهر من الداخل.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“السعادة المفرطة كالحزن تماماً، تضيق بها النفس إن لم نشارك بها أحداً.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“يرغب الإنسان في ذلك: أن يبلغ ما يبدو مستحيلاً. لذلك بلغ آفاقاً بعيدة”
― لوكاس هارتمان, Abschied von Sansibar

“Back a mouse into a corner and he'll attack a lion.”
― Manel Loureiro, Apocalipsis Z: La ira de los justos

“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
― Sam Kean, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery