Mohammed > Mohammed's Quotes

“الحديث مع فتاة متحررة بالنسبة لي هنا كان مثل نسمة هواء باردة ومنعشة، أستعيد بها روحي التي كانت تختنق أمام تناقضات وإزدواجية فتيات يردن التحرر، بينما يقررن أن الزواج والجلوس في البيت قد يكون نهاية المطاف، أو حتي بعض الفتيات المتحررات اللائي لا يرين غضاضة في أن ينفق عليهن رجل بالكامل. لم أستطع أن أفهم منطقهن الانتهازي، الحصول على مزايا التحرر، و مزايا النظام الشرقي الأبوي التقليدي معًا.”
― إبراهيم فرغلي, جنية في قارورة

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“قالولى ليه كل حاجة تقولها فيها نيك
بطلت ليه السياسة والكلام فيها؟
يا متناكين ما السياسة هيّه برضه النيك
والنيك سياسة وحاميها هوّه حراميها”
― نجيب سرور, أميات نجيب سرور

“but even the facts do not always tell the truth”
― Paul Auster

“Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
― E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“نظرية الطرشي في ممارسة الحياة، باختصار: بدلا من أن تأكل الشيء، تعكف على أن تخلله.”
― يوسف رخا, كتاب الطغرى: غرائب التاريخ في مدينة المريخ

“فعلا، أنا أكثر أنانية- وربما أذكى قليلا- من الذين أدخل معهم في علاقات: شخص مهووس بنفسي وعندي قابلية على الضجر تجعلني أتصرف بطريقة تغيظ، وربما من المستحيل أن يكون الشخص الذي معي سعيدا...

عندي قابلية على العزلة واحتقارا دفنا للناس، بالذات في أمورهم الإجتماعية....

إني أريد أن أكون كما أنا طوال الوقت بغض النظر عن السياق، ولأني لست مستعدا للتنازل أو التواؤم دائما ما أعاني النتائج...”
― يوسف رخا, كتاب الطغرى: غرائب التاريخ في مدينة المريخ

“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”
― Louis Aragon, Treatise on Style

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
― Edward Said

“Books don't need batteries.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan

“I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“تتناسب درجة البطء طردًا مع قوّة الذاكرة، وتتناسب درجة السرعة طردًا مع قوّة النسيان.”
― ميلان كونديرا, Slowness

“أقول الحق: إنى قد نسيت الله
و أنسانيه أنى لم أعد حيّا و لا حرًا”
― محمد عفيفي مطر, الأعمال الكاملة: الجزء الأول

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

“والرتوشُ البسيطةُ أثناءَ الحَكْي،
لها سِحرٌ،
لن يفهمَه أبداً
مَن لم يضطرّوا لسرقة حنانِ الآخرين.”
― إيمان مرسال, ممر معتم يصلح لتعلم الرقص

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“الشخص الوحيد الذي أعرفه ويتصرف بعقل هو " الخياط " فهو يأخذ مقاساتي من جديد , في كله مره يراني . .أما الباقون فـيستخدمون مقاييسهم القديمه , ويتوقعون مني أن أناسبها !”
― جورج برناردشو

“، وقال : " إن من صفقتم له لم يكن أنا
والكلمات التي
نطقت بها ليست كلماتي - بل هي مرايا
صغيرة ركِّزت أمامكم
تعكس شذرات من وجوهكم
أو توقعاتكم
وأمام كلماتي ذاتها ركزت أنا
ذاتي
كضوء آت من بعيد ، يسقط على
المرايا
. فيعكس برقاً باهراً يغشى عيونكم فلا تروني”
― يانيس ريتسوس, قصائد للحرية والحياة

“If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.”
― Henry Miller, Plexus

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