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“No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of the word; they have not deserved it . . .

It is like your paltry race--always lying, always claiming virtues which it hasn't got, always denying them to the higher animals, which alone posses them. No brute ever does a cruel thing--that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense. When a brute inflicts pain he does it innocently; it is not wrong; for him there is no such thing as wrong. And he does not inflict pain for the pleasure of inflicting it--only man does that. Inspired by that mongrel Morel Sense of his! A sense whose function is to distinguish between right and wrong, with liberty to choose which of them he will do. Now what advantage can he get out of that? He is always choosing, and in nine time out of ten he prefers the wrong. There shouldn't be any wrong; and without the Moral Sense there couldn't be any. And yet he is such an unreasoning creature that he is not able to perceive that the Moral Sense degrades him to the bottom layer of animated beings and is a shameful possession. Are you feeling better? Let me show you something.”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

“I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners.

"Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..”
― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“قوة الفكرة لا تكمن فى الاصل الذى ينميها بل فى المنطق الذى يزكيها
وصواب الفكرة لا يحدده مصدرها الذى منه اتت بل الذى اليه تستند”
― عادل مصطفى, المغالطات المنطقية

“سئل الأستاذ الهضيبي :
ما شعورك عندما حكم عليك بالإعدام؟
فأجاب : كأني أنتقل من غرفة الجلوس إلى غرفة النوم.”
― حسن الهضيبي

“هناك جيل قادم من الشباب الذين يملكون طاقات لو فجّروها لزلزلت الأرض تحت أقدامهم، ولكن الإستحمار الذي يمارس عليهم والضغط النفسي يجعلهم يظنون أنهم فعلاً لا يملكون للعالم ضرّا ولا نفعاً.”
― إيمان ملال, نقوش على جسد الحرية

“الطريق إلى الحقيقة يبدأ بالشك.”
― فرج فودة, حوار حول العلمانية

“على أنك حين تطيع، لا تكون ذاتك، بل تمحوا فرديتك وتستسلم لغيرك.


مرض عربي اسمه الطاعة
ص 83”
― فؤاد زكريا, خطاب إلى العقل العربي

“الخروف الذي يفكر ، يصير خطرا على نفسه و على الآخرين”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“لكنني لست مذنبا .. كيف يمكن أصلا أن يكون أي منا مذنبا، نحن بشر.”
― فرانتس كافكا, المحاكمة: رواية مصورة

“كيف أصبحت الشخص الذي أنا هو؟ هل أنا نفسي فعلا، أم صنع مني الآخرون بالأحرى الشخص الذي أنا هو؟”
― فرانز كافكا, الآثار الكاملة مع تفسيراتها: الجزء الأول - (الأسرة) يضم: الحكم ، الوقاد ، الانمساخ ، رسالة إلى الوالد

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“هناك دافعان لقراءة كتاب ما: الأول هو الاستمتاع به، والثاني هو التباهي بقراءته.”
― برتراند رسل