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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”
― Sam Tanenhaus, Literature Unbound

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
― Lilla Watson

“أيها ذا الشاكي وما بك داء
كيف تغدو اذا غدوت عليلا

ان شر الجناة في الارض نفس
تتوخى قبل الرحيل الرحيلا

وترى الشوك في الورود وتعمى
ان ترى فوقها الندى اكليلا

هو عبء على الحياة ثقيل
من يظن الحياة عبئاً ثقيلاً

والذي نفسه بغير جمال
لا يرى في الوجود شيئاً جميلا

ليس أشقى ممن يرى العيش مراً
ويظن اللذات فيها فضولا

أحكم الناس في الحياة أناس
عللوها فأحسنوا التعليلا
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أيا هذا الشاكي وما بك داء
كن جميلا تر الوجود جميل”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Most professional humanists as a result are unable to make the connection between the prolonged and sordid cruelty of practices such as slavery, colonialist and racial oppression, and imperial subjection on the one hand, and the poetry, fiction, philosophy of the society that engages in these practices on the other.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism