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“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance”
― Amin Maalouf, The Gardens of Light

“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Sache seulement que si,comme je le crains,le malheur s'abat sur cette ville,si les hommes y perdent le droit,unique au monde,de penser librement,c'est tout l'avenir de l'humanité qui sera menacé.”
― Jacques Attali, La confrérie des éveillés

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“في كل طائفة عصاة يُلعَنون في العلن ويُدعَى لهم في السر.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“Lorsque l'esprit des hommes te paraîtra étroit, dis-toi que la terre de Dieu est vaste, et vastes Ses mains et Son coeur. N'hésite jamais à t'éloigner, au delà de toutes les mers, au-delà de toutes les frontières, de toutes les patries, de toutes les croyances”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“نحن نساء غرناطة حريتنا عبودية مستورة، وعبوديتنا حرية بارعة”
― أمين معلوف, Leo Africanus

“But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“الناس على ثلاثة أصناف : صنف ليس هو من أهل التأويل وهم الخطابيون الذين هم الجمهور الغالب , وصنف هو من أهل التأويل الجدلى وهم الجدليون بالطبع أو بالطبع والعادة . وصنف هو من أهل التأويل اليقينى وهؤلاء هم البرهانيون بالطبع والصناعة , أعنى : صناعة الحكمة”
― ابن رشد, فصل المقال فيما بين الحكمة والشريعة من الاتصال

“The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly