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“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.

I sat down on the lawn and wept.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“علـى قـدرَ مايَغوصُ الحُـزنَ في أعمـاقِكُـم
يـزيـُد مـا تستوعبون مِـن فـرحً”
― جبران خليل جبران

“أنا لا أعرف الحقيقة المجردة , ولكني أركع متواضعا أمام جهلي , وفي هذا فخري وأجري”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“ان العواصف و الثلوج تفني الزهور ولكنها لا تميت بذورها”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأرواح المتمردة

“السلاحف أكثر خبرة بالطرق من الأرانب...”
― جبران خليل جبران

“بعضنا كالحبر وبعضنا كالورق فلولا سواد بعضنا لكان البياض أصم و لولا بياض بعضنا لكان السواد أعمى”
― جبران خليل جبران

“العظيم حقا مَنْ لا يبغي أن يسود أحدًا، ولا يحب أن يسوده أحد.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
― Mark Twain

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
― Mark Twain

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Divert yourself, and ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”
― voltaire, Candide