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“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“احذر بطش الصمت عندما يتكلم”
― ياسر أحمد, جمهورية القرد الأحمر

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“I wander as I walk straight ahead. When it’s time, I show up at the office like everyone else. When it’s not time, I go to the river to gaze at the river, like everyone else. I’m no different. And behind all this, O sky my sky, I secretly constellate and have my infinity.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“القيم الأخلاقية التي تعلمها والتي يؤمن بها تقول أن النساء نوعان، إمرأة في الطريق تشتهى وأم وأخت وزةجة، والمرأة التي تشتهى شيء رخيص، يحاز وتنتهي قيمته بانتهاء الشهوة، وهي صيد يصطاده الرجل، وينتصر عليه ويسبيه كما تسبى النساء في الحروب ويتفاخر بانتصاره أمام الآخرين، والانسان لا يشتهي ابنة خالته ولا يشتهي حتى أخت صديقه إذا كان مهذبا، لأن الشهوة مرتبطه بالجسد والجسد قذر إلى أبعد حدود القذارة”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one”
― Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“نحن الجيل الذى كتب عليه أن يدفع ثمن كل ما مضي وأيضا كل ما سوف يأتي”
― ياسر أحمد

“الحياة كموج البحر لا يتوقف عن أرجحة مركبك، إن تبحر وتستمر أو تتوقف فى مكانك ستستمر هى فى مواصلة الأرجحة.”
― ياسر أحمد, جمهورية القرد الأحمر

“So then you’re free?’
‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
― Franz Kafka, Amerika

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“ما أقسَى أن تنتهي الحياةُ حتى قبلَ أن تبدأ ؟ و ما أقسى أن يسبِق الموت الولادةَ نفسها ؟”
― Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون, يا مريم

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“ما يتعلمه الإنسان في عشرة أيام من الألم، يفوق ما يتعلمه في عشرة سنوات من السعادة”
― مي خالد, سحر التركواز

“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus, L’été

“شئ واحد يستطيع ان يفعله الأنسان، أن يجد شيئا يخصه، شيئا يملكه أو يسكنه حتى وأن كان حلما أو فكرة. شيئا يحاول أن يصنعه ليصنع به نفسه، يحاول إيجاده ليتواجد به.”
― ياسر أحمد, عكس الاتجاه

“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“ومَن يعدِّل الخريطةَ الوراثية لبشرٍ يَنطلِقون إلى الهاوية؟”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري

“القليل من الأقدار يجهض الكثيرَ من الأحلام.”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري

“المحاولات التي تُبذَل لإشعال مصباح لا بدّ أن تنجح يوماً ما.”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري