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“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“المشي يهدئ الأعصاب ،في المشي تكمن قوة شافية. هذه الرتابة في تحريك قدم بعد الأخرى بإيقاع متزن مع التلويح بالذراعين على الجانبين، هذا التسارع في تردد النفس والنشاط الخفيف في النبض ، ذلك التوظيف الضروري للعينين والأذنين لتحديد الاتجاه والمحافظة على التوازن ، هذا الشعور بالهواء الذي يهف على الجلد، كل هذه أشياء تضطر الروح والجسد للتوحد بطريقة حتمية،وتترك الروح، حتى لو كانت في أشد حالاتها غياباً وتثاقلاً، تنمو وتتسع.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“إن تعاسة الإنسان تنتج من كونه لا يريد أن يقبع ساكناً في غرفته هناك حيث يجب أن يكون.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.”
― Samuel Butler

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
― Samuel Butler

“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
― Samuel Butler

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“قلت لشجرة اللوز:
حدثيني عن الله ,
فأزهرت شجرة اللوز”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky