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“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

“لن تستطيعي أن تجدي الشمس في غرفة مغلقة ”
― غسان كنفاني

“إذا كنا مدافعين فاشلين عن القضية.. فالأجدر بنا أن نغير المدافعين..لا أن نغيرالقضية”
― غسان كنفاني

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
― Dave Barry

“والقهوة يجب أن يقدّمها لك شخصٌ ما. القهوةُ كالوَرْد، فالورد يقدّمه لك سِواك، ولا أحدَ يقدّم ورداً لنفسه. وإن أعددتها لنفسك فأنت لحظتها في عزلة حرة بلا عاشق أو عزيز، غريبٌ في مكانك. وإن كان هذا اختياراً فأنت تدفع ثمن حريتك، وإن كان اضطراراً فأنت في حاجةٍ إلى جرس الباب.”
― مريد البرغوثي, ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.

[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“الحالمون لا يمكن ترويضهم أبدا”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.”
― Michael Lee West, American Pie

“Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?”
― Stacey Jay, Juliet Immortal

“Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“If life had taught me anything so far, it was that I was responsible for my own fate.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“Instead of kissing me, he nuzzled my ear with his nose and I felt more than heard him take a long, deep breath. "God, you smell so good, Sara. You make me want to eat you all up."
Oh God.
I wanted to be eaten all up.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“You're mine. I knew it the first time I saw you. I will always come for you, Sara. Always.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them...”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man." "show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
― Bob Marley