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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“أحياناً يحدث أن نلتقي بأشخاص نجهلم تمام الجهل, ومع ذلك نشعر باهتمام بهم وبدافع يقربنا منهم قبل أن نبادلهم كلمةً واحدة”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“لم أفهم معنى ذلك الموت ، لا أفهم معنى للموت .. لكن ما دام محتماً فلنفعل شيئاً يبرر حياتنا . فلنترك بصمة على هذه الأرض قبل أن نغادرها .”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“يمكن أن تحكم الناس بالخوف والقمع ، لكن الخائفين لايمكن ان ينتصروا في حرب ، في ساحة الحرب يجب أن يكونوا أحراراً”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“و ماذا كانت ستفعل بنفسها في ليالي الوحدة و الخوف لو لم تكن الكتب هناك”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“اتكلم طوال الوقت , ولكن مع نفسي , في راسي حوار لا ينقطع”
― بهاء طاهر, الحب في المنفى

“آلاف من الناس يُصفعون كل يوم ولكن قليلاً منهم من يشعر بالإهانة أو الغضب”
― بهاء طاهر, قالت ضحى

“سلم أمرك, تدخل السكينة قلبك”
― بهاء طاهر

“المهم ألا تيأس من الاستقامة إن وقع منك ذنب .. فقد يكون هو آخر ذنب كُتب عليك”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“قالت ضحى: وماذا تقصد أنت بالشر؟
لم أفكر فى هذا من قبل الآن.. ولكن أظن أننى طول عمرى أكره القهر. قهر الإنسان بالفقر وقهره بالخوف، وأهم من ذلك قهره بالجهل. أن يعيش الإنسان ويموت دون أن يعرف أن فى الدنيا علماً فاته وجمالاً فاته وحياة لم يعشها أبداً.”
― بهاء طاهر, قالت ضحى

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“هناك من لا يستطيع أن يلهو إلا وهو في قطيع ..البطل الحقيقي يلهو وحيدا”
― شارل بودلير

“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

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde