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“يومًا ما سأقرأ هذه الكتب وأصير رائعًا .. لكن ليس اليوم !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“ياسيدي لا تسلمني إلي إغواء النفس
لا تتركني مع أي سواك
لخوفي مني اسرع إليك
انا منك فأعدني إلى”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss

“Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.”
― Eileen Myles

“قال لي : " أنت تعرف بالطبع المثل الشهير (اللي يخاف من العفريت يطلع له) .. أتعلم أني حين أنام وحدي ليلاً أخاف بشدة ؟! .. لستُ أخاف من أن يطلع لي العفريت .. لكني أخاف من أن أفكر في (اللي يخاف من العفريت يطلع له) كثيراً فيطلع لي العفريت

يا إلهي ! .. المثقفون مملون حتى في طريقة خوفهم !!”
― أحمد صبري غباشي

“أكثر الناس ينتظرون شيئاً ما ليتغيروا، وآخرون يتغيرون عندما تحدث لهم صدمة، أو تتغير أدوارهم في الحياة. لكن أعظم التغيير هو التغير المقصود الواعي النابع من التأمل والإرادة والشعور بالمسؤولية”
― طارق السويدان

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times: The Play

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“قال لي سالم بيه: "أنت تقرأ كثيرا..أنت مجنون!" .. قلت له إن القراءة بالنسبة لي نوع رخيص من المخدرات. لا أفعل بها شيئاً سوى الغياب عن الوعي. في الماضي -تصور هذا- كانوا يقرءون من أجل إكتساب الوعي ! ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
― Jon Stewart

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.”
― Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

“We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”
― Jon Steward

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“الخجل ينبع من توهمك لأهمية مبالغ فيها لنفسك .. أنت لست مهماً كما تعتقد .. لست مهماً على الإطلاق وليس هناك شخص متفرغ لمراقبة خلجاتك وأخطائك”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, زغازيغ

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”
― A.A. Milne

“Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“هل نستطيع ان نشير بالاصبع الى محطات (حوادث) في حياتنا غيرت من نكون او عدلت في شخصيتنا او نقلتنا من مرحلة الى اخرى؟ عندما نجلس في نهاية حقبة و نحاول ان نتذكر و نتأمل و نحلل هل نصل الى خلاصات حقيقية ام ( نتوهم ) اننا وصلنا الى خلاصات؟ هل نعرف حياتنا ؟ المعرفة ممكنة؟ الحياة تمر بسرعة و الفهم يأتي على مهل. قبل ذلك، قبل التأمل، علينا ان نحكي بعض ما جرى”
― ربيع جابر, أميركا

“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father."
He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples."
He nice, the Jesus.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“لا أريد أن أموت قبل أن أموت.”
― نجيب محفوظ, الفجر الكاذب

“شكراً للعادة فقد قتلت كل حزن .. وفرح”
― نجيب محفوظ, عصر الحب

“Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim