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“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

“In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched walls and the stamped earth as its floor, there’s a wooden table and a bench. In this round cell a man that looks like me is writing in signs that i don’t understand a long poem about a man who in another round cell is writing a poem about a man in another round cell. Endless series; nobody will ever read what prisoners write. ”
― jorge luis borges

“The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers”
― Roberto Arlt, El juguete rabioso

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity”
― Cesar Aira, The Literary Conference

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”
― César Aira, The Hare

“Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”
― César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

“There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer”
― James Clavell, Shogun

“It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“The subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title.”
― James Clavell

“I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“Like dew I was born
Like dew I vanish
..and all that I have ever done
Is but a dream
Within a dream”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Volume 1

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?”
― Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“غرباء ..


و بكينا.. يوم غنّى الآخرون

و لجأنا للسماء

يوم أزرى بالسماء الآخرون

و لأنّا ضعفاء

و لأنّا غرباء

نحن نبكي و نصلي

يوم يلهو و يغنّي الآخرون



و حملنا.. جرحنا الدامي حملنا

و إلى أفق وراء الغيب يدعونا.. رحلنا

شرذماتٍ.. من يتامى

و طوينا في ضياعٍ قاتم..عاماً فعاما

و بقينا غرباء

و بكينا يوم غنى الآخرون



سنوات التيهِ في سيناءَ كانت أربعين

ثم عاد الآخرون

و رحلنا.. يوم عاد الآخرون

فإلى أين؟.. و حتامَ سنبقى تائهين

و سنبقى غرباء ؟”
― سميح القاسم

“إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
― Che Guevara