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“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

“For the new year. -- I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought: hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year -- what thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life henceforth. I want to learn to see more and more as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all and all and on the whole: someday I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“فليتك تحلو والحياة مريرة
وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ

وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ

إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom--not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else”
― Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994

“نزح بحرين بغربالين و حفر بئر بإبرتين و غسل عبدين اسودين حتى يصيرا كأبيضين و كنس أرض الحجاز فى يوم شديد الهواء بريشتين خير لي أن أقف على باب لئيم يضيع فيه ماء عيني”
― عبد الحميد كشك, قصة أيامي: مذكرات الشيخ كشك