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“الألم هو الحقيقة الوحيدة، الكثيرون قالوا صيغة ما من هذه العبارة، ومع هذا لا يكتمل إدراكك لها سوى حين تبلغ درجة فاحشة من الألم المطّرد.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“I miss you."
"That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
"It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

“I am beginning to feel at home in
college, and in command of the situation; I am beginning, in fact, to feel at
home in the world--as though I really belonged to it and had not just crept
in on sufferance.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long-Legs

“Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not. I've decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of little happinesses, even if I never become a Great Author.”
― Jean Webster

“I’m afraid of things changing, but at the same time I’m dying to experience something different.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“مهما حصل ما تزقيش الوقت، لا تزقية يعدي و لا تزقية يفضل خاصة وقت الاشخاص في حياتك كل المشاكل ووجع القلب اللي البشر فية علشان بيحاولوا يتحايلوا علي الوقت و بخدعوه، علشان يخلوا ناس انتهي وقتهم في حياتهم يفضلوا موجودين فيأذوهم فيرجعوا يعيطوا و ناس تانية نفسها وقت اشخاص او حاجات معينة يعدي بسرعة فيرجعوا يندموا علي اللي ضيعوة و اللي مستمتعوش بية!”
― ميرنا الهلباوي, مر مثل القهوة حلو مثل الشوكولا

“The most beautiful thing of all, though, is to be able to shake hands again
with an old friend, as in days gone by; it is a great comfort to find again, what
we have treasured.”
― Johanna Spyri

“we could not pray for
anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of
something better.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
― George Orwell

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
― George Orwell

“You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades; but there were some comrades whose society was pleasanter than that of others.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him”
― George Orwell, 1984

“As women gain rights, families flourish, and so do societies. That connection is built on a simple truth: Whenever you include a group that's been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you're working globally to include women and girls, who are half of every population, you're working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equity lifts everyone. Women's rights and society's health and wealth rise together.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The emptiness of a man's heart becomes, as
we find it has in this man, an abyss threatening to swallow up society”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“love is the effort to help others flourish—and it often begins with lifting up a person’s self-image.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“أما الوحدة، فهي تجعل منه كائنا متجمّدًا، لا فائدة منه على الإطلاق، مثل عود ثقاب نائم في علبة الكبريت”
― ستيفان زفايغ Stefan Zweig

“كلا، لم تعد إليه الذاكرة شيئا فشيئا. بل انهالت في داخل رأسه، كما يتساقط جدار من الحجارة و يتراكم بعضه فوق بعض.”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“لو أنّ شيئاً يدوم على حال فلم تتعاقب الفصول؟”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحرافيش

“عندما تكون فريسة لهوس ما فإن خطر الانتكاسة قائم دائماً حتى بعد الشفاء منه.”
― ستيفان زفايج, Chess Story

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for all the good it did me.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ’ He hesitated, ‘because you mayn’t find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“He’d accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone. It was their lot in life, and Linus had figured out, at the age of twenty-seven, that it seemed to be that way for him.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.”
― Charles Bukowski