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“احتقرتُ نفسي سبعَ مرَّات:

الأولى، عندما رأيتُها تتظاهرُ الوضاعة وهي تنشدُ الرِّفعة.

والثانية عندما رأيتها تترنَّح متجاوزة العَرْجى.

والثالثة عندما خُيِّرتْ بين السَّهل والشَّاق ففضَّلت السَّهل.

والرابعة عندما اقترفَتْ ذنباً وراحتْ تبرِّره باقتراف الآخرين ذنوباً مماثلة.

والخامسة عندما عجِزَتْ عن فعل شيء لضعفها وعزَتْ صبرَها إلى القوَّة.

والسادسة عندما احتقرتْ بشاعة وجهٍ تبيَّن أنه أحدُ براقعها.

والسابعة عندما غنَّتْ مديحاً واعتبرتْ غناءَها فضيلة.”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“أنا سافل بيحب الدنيا وهربان من حكم بتأبيدة وباواجة ربنا بإيماني وباواجة نفسي بقصيدة”
― عمر طاهر

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“عندما تتكاثر المصائب يمحو بعضها بعضاً ..
وتحل بك سعادة جنونية غريبة المذاق ..
وتستطيع أن تضحك من قلب لم يعد يعرف الخوف !”
― نجيب محفوظ

“قد نضيق بالحبّ إذا وُجد، ولكن شَدَّ مانفتقده إذا ذهب.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“من يحمل الماضي تتعثر خطاه”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحرافيش

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“أنا العاشق السيئ الحظ
لا أستطيع الذهاب إليك،
ولا أستطيع الرجوع إليّ
تمرد قلبي عليّ...”
― محمود درويش

“صرت مجنونا ، و لكني وجدت بجنوني هذا ، الحرية و النجاة معا : حرية الانفراد ، و النجاة من أن يدرك الناس كياني ، لأن الذين يدركون كياننا إنما يستعبدون بعض ما فينا”
― جبران خليل جبران

“لماذا تتسابق الأسر على أن يدخل أبناؤها كلية الشرطة ؟.. هناك أسباب كثيرة لكن أهمها أنها تريد أن تملك (مراد بيه) الخاص بها والذي تخالف به القوانين .. ولتحقيق هذا تتصل بـ (مراد بيه) آخر ليسهل لها أن يصير ابنها (مراد بيه).. كل أسرة تريد أن يكون عندها وكيل النيابة والمستشار فإن لم تجد واحدًا ناسبته أو تمحكت في قريب بعيد .. هكذا تستطيع أن تخالف القانون كما تشاء .. وترى السيدة تحدثك في فخر عن قرابتها لـ (مراد بيه) في الجمارك و(مراد بيه) في أمن الدولة و(مراد بيه) في دار القضاء العالي و(مراد بيه) في قسم (الساحل).. حتى كأنها من هواة جمع الطوابع تحدثك عن مجموعتها الخاصة من الـ (مراد بيهات)ـ”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“أنا مش حانكش القشرة علشان الجرح مايخلنيش أصوت، لكن حاكحت البوية علشان أشوف إللى تحتها”
― فؤاد حداد, الأعمال الكاملة (2): على الطريق الرمضاني

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“فلقد اصبحت فعلا تتوق للعودة الى المنزل و النوم مبكرا لتنهى هذا اليوم بيدك،لتشعر أن وسط كل هذا العبث ما زال لديك الاختيار بين أكثر من طريقة لأهدار يومك”
― رحاب بسام

“فلنتــرك كــل أشبــاح المــاضي .....تكفــي أشباح الحاضر وتـزيد!”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
― Jon Katz

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“. العادة كفيلة بأن تجعل الألم غير أليم”
― نجيب محفوظ, القاهرة الجديدة

“عيبنا نحن الشرقيون أننا كرماء للغاية حتى أننا نعطي قلوبنا لأول عابر سبيل”
― ميخائيل نعيمة

“ليست حقيقة الانسان بما يظهره لك , بل بما لا يستطيع أن يظهره لك , لذلك اذا أردت أن تعرفه فلا تصغ الى ما يقوله بل الى ما لايقوله”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“فى حياة كل منا أشياء ثمينة جدًا، لكنها تجعل الآخرين يتهموننا بالتفاهة أو الضحالة أو الجنون إذا عرفوا بها، و نتهمهم نحن بالغباء و تبلد المشاعر عندما يبدون سخريتهم.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“كمقهي صغير علي شارع الغرباء
هو الحبّ... يفتح أَبوابه للجميع.
كمقهي يزيد وينقص وَفْق المناخ:
إذا هَطَلَ المطر ازداد روَّاده،
وإذا اعتدل الجوّ قَلّوا ومَلّوا...
أَنا هاهنا يا غريبة في الركن أجلس
ما لون عينيكِ؟ ما اَسمك؟ كيف
أناديك حين تمرِّين بي ، وأَنا جالس
في انتظاركِ؟
مقهي صغيرٌ هو الحبّ. أَطلب كأسيْ
نبيذ وأَشرب نخبي ونخبك. أَحمل
قبَّعتين وشمسيَّة. إنها تمطر الآن.

تمطر أكثر من أيِّ يوم، ولا تدخلينَ
أَقول لنفسي أَخيرا: لعلَّ التي كنت
أنتظر انتظَرتْني... أَو انتظرتْ رجلا
آخرَ انتظرتنا ولم تتعرف عليه/ عليَّ،
وكانت تقول: أَنا هاهنا في انتظاركَ.
ما لون عينيكَ؟ أَيَّ نبيذٍ تحبّ؟
وما اَسمكَ؟ كيف أناديكَ حين
تمرّ أَمامي
كمقهي صغير هو الحب”
― محمود درويش, روائع الأعمال الشعرية