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“ذات مرة كتب طه حسين الى زوجته سوزان يقول: «بدونك اشعر اني اعمى حقا. اما وانا معك، فإني اتوصل الى الشعور بكل شيء، واني امتزج بكل الاشياء التي تحيط بي». وعندما رحل هو عن العالم، كتبت هي تقول: «ذراعي لن تمسك بذراعك ابدا، ويداي تبدوان لي بلا فائدة بشكل محزن، فأغرق في اليأس، اريد عبر عيني المخضبتين بالدموع، حيث يقاس مدى الحب، وامام الهاوية المظلمة، حيث يتأرجح كل شيء، اريد ان ارى تحت جفنيك اللذين بقيا محلقين، ابتسامتك المتحفظة، ابتسامتك المبهمة، الباسلة، اريد ان ارى من جديد ابتسامتك الرائعة..»”
― طه حسين, الأيام

“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I understood then what courage is all about. It is loving someone else more than you love yourself.”
― Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

“If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh”
― Talbot Mundy, Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders: When India Came to Fight in Flanders