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“If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?”
― Frans de Waal

“Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.”
― Frans de Waal, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

“Film lovers are sick people.”
― François Truffaut

“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”
― Federico Fellini

“من يحمل الماضي تتعثر خطاه”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحرافيش

“واستقرت الإهانة في الأعماق ، فهي لا تهضم ولا إلى الخارج تقذف”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحرافيش

“إن النفس الكئيبة تجد راحة بالعزلة والانفراد فتهجر الناس مثلما يبتعد الغزال الجريح عن سربه ويتوارى في كهفه حتى يبرأ أو يموت .”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“حقيقة واحدة، وهي أن الإخلاص يجعل جميع الأعمال حسنة وشريفة”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings (English and Arabic Edition): A Poetic Novel in Bilingual Edition

“الجمال الذي يرضيك هو الذي يشف عن صورة روحك بغير ما يخيّلها لك ماء الحياة العكر”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي