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“و عجزت و أقررت بعجزي*** وهنالك يعجز كل حَجي
فافهم و أقم أو فاستسلم*** و دع المنهاج لمُنتهجِِ
أو فاسلك و اترك جهل النا***س ولبّ و بشر بالفرج
من جال فنال وصال فقا *** ل فليس عليه من حرج!!
لا حـــــــول ولا قـــــوة إلا *** بالله فكبر و ابتهج”
― محمد زكي الدين إبراهيم, ديوان البقايا 1

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

“In the letters he sends to his friend, Werther recounts both the events of his life and the effects of his passion; but it is literature which governs the mixture. For if I keep a journal, we may doubt that this journal relates, strictly speaking, to events. The events of amorous life are so trivial that they gain access to writing only by an immense effort: one grows discouraged writing what, by being written, exposes its own platitude: "I ran into X, who was with Y" "Today X didn't call me" "X was in a bad mood," etc.: who would see a story in that? The infinitesimal event exists only in its huge reverberation: Journal of my reverberations (of my wounds, my joys, my interpretations, my rationalizations, my impulses): who would understand anything in that? Only the Other could write my love story, my novel.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall”
― Tupac Shakur

“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. On the question you raised, the effects of wounds vary greatly. Simple wounds which do not break bone are of little account. They sometimes give confidence. Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else."-Interview for the Paris Review, 1956”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.”
― Thomas E. Woods Jr.

“9 أيام من السعادة الزائفة
ابريل اللئيم يبدأ بفراق و ينتهي بفراق ..!”
― نبال قندس

“In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.”
― John Paul Warren

“We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Throughout history, big changes always start with a girl meeting a boy."
"No they don't," Jane said. "They start with somebody being assassinated.”
― Natalie Standiford, Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters

“You're my compass, remember? You're here to light my way in the darkness of this world.”
― Rebecca Lim, Fury

“Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“From the look on your face, I'd say you know him."

I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school."

Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli”
― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
― Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“But lassies are trained for it, in a manner of speaking; it's part of the growing-up process for them, young females. It doesn't happen with boys, just if you're a lassie, you've got to learn how not to talk; plus how not to look, you get trained how not to look. How not to look and how not to talk. You get trained how not to do things.”
― James Kelman

“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
― Madame De Stal

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

“مشكلة د. فرج فودة - وهي مشكلة مَن يفكر تفكيره - أنه ينظر للإسلام باعتباره عاطفة دينية يمتليء بها الوجدان ويحلق بها الإنسان، ولا ينظر إليه باعتباره مصدرا يوجه تفكير المسلم وشعوره وسلوكه، وأنه منهج متميز للحياة، له حكمه وموقفه في تحديد أسس التعامل والعلاقات بين الإنسان ونفسه وبين الإنسان وربه وبين الإنسان وأسرته وبين الإنسان ومجتمعه وبين الناس في المجتمع الواحد بعضهم وبعض وبين المجتمعات الإنسانية في حالة السلم وفي حالة الحرب، وله في ذلك أصول وضوابط متفق عليها وتفريعات مختلَف فيها، وقد جاء في الحديث: لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه تبعا لما جئتُ به.”
― يوسف القرضاوي, الإسلام والعلمانية وجهًا لوجه

“We know that God is everywhere…it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Just because I have food, it doesn't mean I'm going to share it with you.”
― Helen

“The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
― Frederic Bastiat

“Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

'Smiles are like that. They come and go.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe