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“ألن يكفوا عن هذا السخف ؟.. كل مجلة ترى على غلافها عجوزاً متعصباً وتحت صورته عبارات من طراز: "سيد عبد السميع يتكلم" .."شهادتي للتاريخ".. وداخل العدد تجد أحد الصامتين الذين قرروا أن يتكلموا فجأة : "جمال عبد الناصر لم يكن يحب الجبنة البيضاء ..لقد كذب هيكل".. "السادات لم يكن يشد السيفون بعد مغادرة الحمام".. و"كنت جالساً مع إبراهيم حنفي وسيد شحاته حينما دخل عبد الناصر وفي يده ساندوتش بسطرمة".. كل واحد منهم كان الصديق الأقرب لأحد الزعماء، وكل واحد منهم يعرف يقيناً بالمكان الذي ذهب إليه الزعيم بعد وفاته.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.”
― Paolo Coehlo

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

“You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes