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“نصف البشر يقضون أعمارهم دون أن يعرفوا عن أنفسهم شيئاً و النصف الآخر يقضي عمره في إنكار حقيقته و الهروب منها ...”
― محمد سليمان عبد المالك

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“لِيَ حِكْمْةُ المحكوم بالإعدامِ :
لا أشياءَ أملكُها لتملكني ,
كتبتُ وصيَّتي بدمي :
((ثِقُوا بالماء يا سُكَّانَ أُغنيتي!))
وَنْمتُ مُضَرّجاً ومُتَوَّجاً بغدي...
حَلِمْتُ بأنَّ قلب الأرض أكبرُ
من خريطتها ,
وأَوضحُ من مراياها وَمشْنَقَتي .
وَهمْتُ بغيمةٍ بيضاء تأخذني
إلى أَعلى
كأنني هُدْهُدٌ , والريحُ أَجنحتي .
وعند الفجر , أَيقظني
نداء الحارس الليليِّ
من حُلْمي ومن لغتي :
ستحيا مِيْتَةً أخرى ,
فَعَدِّلْ في وصيتِّكَ الأخيرةِ ,
قد تأجَّل موعدُ الإعدام ثانيةً
سألت : إلى متى؟
قال : انتظر لتموت أكثَرَ
قُلْتُ : لا أشياء أملكها لتملكني
كتبتُ وصيَّتي بدمي :
((ثِقُوا بالماء
يا سُكَّان أغنيتي!))”
― Mahmoud Darwish, لا تعتذر عما فعلت

“Education is the art of making man ethical”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت

“But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse and a whiff of it; that is they contain, in a very vague, diluted state, more genuine reality than our vaunted waking life which, in its turn, is semi-sleep, an evil drowsiness into which penetrate in grotesque disguise the sounds and sights of the real world, flowing beyond the periphery of the mind—as when you hear during sleep a dreadful insidious tale because a branch is scraping on the pane, or see yourself sinking into snow because your blanket is sliding off.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

“What are these hopes, and who is this savior?” “Imagination,” replied Cincinnatus.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“هل أنت واثق أن حياة الإنسان تبدأ بولادته ؟”
― Amin Maalouf, Ports of Call

“Greatness depends on where you are coming from.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“He was not living his life; life was living him”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting:Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“أعمق فراغ رأيته في حياتي، هو فراغ جدار كان يسند مكتبة مُباعة.”
― Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità

“المدرسة تعطي وزنًا لمن ليس لديه حجم، فتحقق المساواة. لاتُنهي الشقاء، لكنها تسمح بالتعادل داخل جدرانها، الفوز والخسارة يبدآن خارج أبوابها.”
― Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità

“الحرب تُظهر أسوأ ما في الإنسان .. لكنها تُظهر أفضل ما عنده أيضاً”
― Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità