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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“ليست الرغبة في الخضوع للقوانين هي التي تلزم الجميع بما يفرضه المجتمع ، بل الخوف من العقاب .. كل منّا يحمل مشنقة في أعماقه”
― الشيطان والآنسة بريم .. باولو كويلو

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“إن البشر يريدون تغيير كل شئ،ويتمنون،فى الوقت عينه،أن يبقى كلُ شئ على منواله.”
― الشيطان والآنسة بريم .. باولو كويلو

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“... il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo: Tome 1

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“ما دام ثمّة - بسبب من القانون والعرف - هلاكٌ اجتماعي يخلق صناعيا وعلى مرأى من الحضارة ومسمع، ضروباً من الجحيم على الأرض ، ويعقد في قضاء بشري محتوم مصيراً هو إلهيٌ ، مادامت مشكلات العصر الثلاث "الحط من قدر الرجل بالفقر ، وتحطيم كرامة المرأة بالجوع، وتقزيم الطفولة بالجهل" لمّا تُحل بعد ، مادام الاختناق الاجتماعي ممكناً ما يزال ... مادام على ظهر هذه الأرض جهلٌ وبؤس، فإن كُتباً مثل هذا الكتاب لا يمكن أن تكون غيرَ ذاتِ غناء.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo