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“احتمالات

ربما الماء يروب،
ربما الزيت يذوب،
ربما يحمل ماء في ثقوب،
ربما الزاني يتوب،
ربما تطلع شمس الضحى من صوب الغروب،
ربما يبرأ شيطان، فيعفو عنه غفار الذنوب،
.إنما لا يبرأ الحكام في كل بلاد العرب من ذنب الشعوب”
― أحمد مطر

“انطلقي ياحبيبتي، صلي كيانك بالآخرين، بالملايين من الآخرين، بالأرض الطيبة أرضنا، وبالشعب الطيب شعبنا.
وستجدين حبا أكبر مني ومنك، حبا كبيرا، حبا جميلا.. حبا لا يستطيع أحد أن يسلبك اياه، حبا تجدين دائما صداه يتردد في الأذن، وينعكس في القلب، ويكبر به الإنسان ويشتد.. حب الوطن وحب الشعب..”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“فهمت ان ببلوغها دخلت سجنا ذا حدود مرسومة و على باب السجن يقف أبوها و أخوها و أمها .
و الحياة مؤلمة للسجان و السجينة, السجان لا ينام الليل خوفا من ان ينطلق السجين, خشية أن يخرج على الحدود, و الحدود محفورة حفرها الناس و وعوها و اقاموا من أنفسهم حراسا عليها, و السجينة تستشعر قوى لا عهد لها بها قوى النمو المفاجىء, قوى جارفة تسعى الى الانطلاق, قوى فى جسمها تتطوقها الحدود, و قوى فى عقلها تشلها الحدود, حدود بلهاء عمياء صماء.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore