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“كما قلت لك : ( قلب الرجل لا يخلو من امرأة ) , قد تكون امرأة حية أو ميتة, قد تكون زوجة أو صديقة, وقد تكون شيئًا آخر. دائمًا توجد امرأة.

أمّا إذا رأيت رجلاً ليس في قلبه امرأة فتأكّد أن ما تراه ليس رجلاً, إنه جثّة تريد قبرًا.”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, الأشجار واغتيال مرزوق

“إذا كان الناس يفضلون, في بعض الأوقات, تذكّر الأيام الجميلة من الماضي, فإنّ الأيام القاسية يصبح لها جمالٌ من نوع خاص, حتى الصعوبات التي عاشوها تتحول في الذاكرة إلى بطولة غامضة, ولا يصدقون أنهم احتملوا ذلك كله واستمروا بعد ذلك !”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, النهايات

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I utter what you would not dare think.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“إن الفضول شيء رائع ولكنه غير قانوني.”
― غسان كنفاني

“إن قضية الموت ليست على الإطلاق قضية الميت..إنها قضية الباقين”
― غسان كنفاني

“لا تمت قبل أن تكون ندّاً”
― غسان كنفاني

“إن الانسان هو قضيه”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“إن الفكــرة النبيــلة غالبــاً لا تحتــاج للفهم... بــل تحتــاج للإحــســاس”
― غسان كنفاني

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being