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“من ذاق اﻷلم والعذاب كان أقدر الناس على أن يحس بالسعادة القصوى”
― الكسندر دوماس, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“الحروف أمامك ، فخذها من حيادها والعب بها كالفاتح في هذيان الكون . الحررف قلقة ، جائعة إلى صورة ، والصورة عطشى إلى معنى ، الحروف أواني فخار فارغة فاملأها بسهرالغزو الأول ، والحروف نداء أخرس في حصى متنارثة على قارعة المعنى ..
حك حرف بحرف تولد نجمة ،
قرب حرف من حرف تسمع صوت المطر ...
ضع حرفا على حرف تجد اسمك مرسوما كسلم قليل الدرج”
― محمود درويش, في حضرة الغياب

“ألا يجدر بهذه الآلام العتيقة جداً
أن تعطينا الثمر أخيرًا؟”
― راينر ماريا ريلكه

“يستحيل عليّ نسيان أن الوحدة هي كل ما أملك”
― راينر ماريا ريلكه

“أيتها الوردة , يا رمز التناقض
أرغب أن أكون نوماً لـ لا أحد
تحت العديد من الأغطية”
― راينر ماريا ريلكه

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law of Return) I do qualify as a member of the tribe, and any denial of that in my family has ceased with me. But I would not remove myself to Israel if it meant the continuing expropriation of another people, and if anti-Jewish fascism comes again to the Christian world—or more probably comes at us via the Muslim world—I already consider it an obligation to resist it wherever I live. I would detest myself if I fled from it in any direction. Leo Strauss was right. The Jews will not be 'saved' or 'redeemed.' (Cheer up: neither will anyone else.) They/we will always be in exile whether they are in the greater Jerusalem area or not, and this in some ways is as it should be. They are, or we are, as a friend of Victor Klemperer's once put it to him in a very dark time, condemned and privileged to be 'a seismic people.' A critical register of the general health of civilization is the status of 'the Jewish question.' No insurance policy has ever been devised that can or will cover this risk.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“وأنت تعد فطورك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس قوت الحمام)
وأنت تخوض حروبك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس من يطلبون السلام)
وأنت تسدد فاتورة الماء، فكر بغيرك... (من يرضعون الغمام)
وأنت تعود الي البيت، بيتك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس شعب الخيام)
وأنت تنام وتحصي الكواكب، فكر بغيرك... (ثمة من لم يجد حيزا للمنام)
وأنت تحرر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكر بغيرك... (من فقدوا حقهم في الكلام)
وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكر بنفسك... (قل: ليتني شمعة في الظلام)”
― محمود درويش

“الضمير: لا يمنعنا من فعل الأشياء السيئة ..
ولكنه يُزعج ما تبقى فينا من أخلاق .. ويُعكر المتعة!”
― محمد الرطيان

“لقد أدركت أن العربي بصفة عامة والمصري بصفة خاصة أشد ميلا بحكم ثقافته إلى العبارات المثيرة للوجدان، منه إلى العبارة المستندة إلى عقل،و أدركت فوق هذا وذلك أن في مقدمة الإصلاح أن نربي الأجيال الجديدة على وقفة يفرق لنفسه فيها بين ما هو عام فيحيله إلى العقل وادواته وما هو خاص فلا بأس عندئذ في الركو إلى لغة الشعور.”
― زكي نجيب محمود, قصة عقل

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“A rose by any other name
Would get the blame
For being what it is--
The colour of a kiss,
The shadow of a flame.

A rose may earn another name,
So call it love;
So call it love I will,
And love is like the sea,
Which changes constantly,
And yet is still
The same.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“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

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country