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“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
― Ahmed Khaled Towfik, يوتوبيا

“So let the storm rage. Let the storm rage.”
― Ahmed Khaled Towfik, يوتوبيا

“نحن يا عزيزي لا نحيا بما نذكره ولكن برحمة ما ننساه”
― تامر إبراهيم, الليلة الثالثة والعشرون

“الملوك والأمراء لا يسجنون ولا يحاكمون ولا تعرف عدالة الأرض لهم طريقا.”
― تامر إبراهيم, صانع الظلام

“من كان ذا حُلم وطاَل به المدى
فليحِمِه
وليحم أيضا نفسه
من حُلمِهِ
فالحلم يكبر أدهُرا
فى يومه
ويزيدُ دَيْنُ الدهر حتى يستحيلْ
فترى ابن آدم
راضيا من أى شئ بالقليل
لا تقبلوا بالقبح يا أهلى مكافأة
على الصبر الجميل
فالصبر طول العمر خير
من خلاص الكاذب
ما فيه من صفة الخلاص سوى اسمهِ”
― تميم البرغوثي, في القدس

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“But if you tame me, then we
shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
shall be unique in all the world.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.”
― Elisabeth Kubler Ros

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett