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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“نحن نكبر لنكتشف حجم حماقاتنا بالأمس”
― محمد حامد.., بورتريه الوحدة

“كرهت تشبَُّثي بالأشياء التي لا تعود، و تمدُّدي لملامسة الأشياء التي لا تأتي.”
― مشبب ثابت, الأغبياء لا يخونون

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“لا شىء مرّتين يحدث
ولن يحدث.لهذا السبب
وُلِدنا بلا دربة
ونموت بلا"روتين".

حتى لو كنا تلاميذ
فى مدرسة العالم،
لن نعيد عاماً سقط من حسابنا
فى أىّ شتاءٍ كان
و أىَّ صيفٍ يكون

لن يتكرّر أىّ يوم
ليس ثمّة ليلتان متقاربتان،
ولا قُبلتان هما نفسهما،
ولا ذات النظرتين فى العيون.”
― فيسوافا شيمبورسكا, فيسوافا شيمبورسكا شاعرة نوبل 1996: مختارات شعرية

“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
― Richard Siken