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“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
― Emile Zola

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“Books make up no small part of human happiness.”
― Frederick the Great

“إننا لا نستمد الجمال من خارجنا، إنما نستمده من داخلنا.. ولأننا نرى العالم من خلالنا قبل أن نراه من حولنا”
― فاروق جويدة, قالت

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“لو ألفُ عامٍ فرّقتنا
سوف يجمعنا حنينٌ .. أو قصيدهْ”
― فاروق جويدة, لو أننا لم نفترق

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“إني حين أقرا كتبي الآن التي صدرت سابقاأجدها مليئة بالأخطاء، فإني قد كتبتها في ظروف معينة، وتحت تأثير معلومات كنت أعتقد بصحتها في حينه،ثم تغيرت الظروف أو تغيرت المعلومات، وأدركت بأن ما كتبته الأمس لا يصلح اليوم كما أن ما اكتبه اليوم قد لا يصلح غدا”
― علي الوردي

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case”
― Tomas Tranströmer, For the Living and the Dead

“كانت المكتبة بمثابة بيتي الثاني, أو لعلها كانت بيتي الحقيقي أكثر من المكان الذي عشت فيه !”
― Haruki Murakami