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“حسبي وحسبكُ أن تظلي دائماً سراً يمزقني وليسَ يُقالُ”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“حلم من الأحلام لا يحكى .. ولا يفسر ..”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“الكاتب فى وطنى
يتكلم كل لغات العالم
إلا العربية
فلدينا لغة مرعبة
قد سدوا فيها كل ثقوب الحرية”
― نزار قباني, تزوجتك أيتها الحرية

“اشتقت إليك .. فعلمني أن لا أشتاق
علمني كيف أقص جذور هواك من الأعماق”
― نزار قباني, أحلى قصائدي

“من تلجأ إليه في اللحظات الصعبة هو من تحبه فعلاً”
― عبدالله المغلوث, الساعة 7:46 مساءً

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”
― Myron Uhlberg, Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“لماذا يكتب المرء إن لم يكن من أجل أن يجمع القطع مع بعضها بعضاً؟”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“Development develops inequality.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
― Maya Angelou

“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.”
― Jane Kenyon

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost