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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“ It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.”
― Eiichiro Oda

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.”
― DH Lawrence

“الإنسان لا يتحمل الألم إلا من خلال إيمانه بشيء ما يتجاوز ذاته الضيقة”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“إن حلم الفصحى ليس (حلم العودة)، وإنما حلم الانطلاق نحو غد يمسك فيه العرب بزمام أمرهم .. أما التحيز إلى العامية ، فهذا هو طريق الهزيمة والسوق الشرق أوسطية”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“الإذعان والقبول بالأمر الواقع هما جوهر الجمود والرجعية”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“الإنسان هو الكائن الوحيد القادر على أن يرتفع على ذاته
أو يهوى دونها، على عكس الملائكة والحيوانات، فالملائكة
لا تملك إلا أن تكون ملائكة والحيوانات هي الأخرى لا تملك
إلا أن تكون حيوانات، أما الإنسان فقادر أن يرتفع إلى النجوم
أو أن يغوص في الوحل”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري

“أنا لاأعتقد أن هناك دولة عظمى ستظهر بعد أمريكا ، إنما سيكون عالم متعدد الأقطاب مثل الصين واليابان وأوربا ،ومن يدري؟ فربما يكون العرب إحدى القوى السياسية في العالم.”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
― Herman Wouk

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”
― H.G. Wells

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“إن انتشار الكفر في العالم يحمل نصف أوزاره متدينون بغضوا الله إلى خلقه بسوء صنيعهم وسوء كلامهم”
― محمد الغزالي