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“فَما أَكثَرَ الإِخوان حينَ تَعدّهُم, وَلَكِنَهُم في النائِباتِ قَليلُ”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib, ديوان أمير المؤمنين الإمام علي بن أبي طالب

“Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.”
― Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

“Reality alone justifies everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”
― Angie Sage

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“.هناكَ شيءٌ ما يحدثُ في هذا العالم على الدوام . هناكَ كائنٌ ما يموت و آخر يولد. هناك فراقٌ و لقاءٌ في الوقت نفسه تقربياً. يعني ذلك أنه يستحيل علينا أن نحزن إلى الأبدِ”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

“تبا لك من بين الأوطان ‏،‏
لا وطنا عرفت أن تكون ولا منفى !”
― أدهم الشرقاوي, كش ملك

“القراءَةُ تمنَحكَ رفَاهِيةَ فَهمِ الآخرينَ
ولكنَّها للأسَفِ تجعلكَ أقل فهماً لذَاتِك !”
― أدهم الشرقاوي

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“ان تكن تبحث عن مسكن الروح فأنت روح
وان تكن تفتش عن قطعة خبز فأنت الخبز
وان تستطع ادراك هذه الفكرة الدقيقة فسوف تفهم
ان كل ما تبحث عنه هو أنت”
― جلال الدين الرومى, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose