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“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“إنني أقول لك كل شيء لأنني أفتقدك, لأنني أكثر من ذلك (تعبت من الوقوف) بدونك”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“أنتِ في جلدي، وأحسكِ مثلما أحس فلسطين: ضياعها كارثة بلا أي بديل”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena