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“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

“لأنه لا يُسمح لي بدخول القدس
قلت لإمرأة تقطن هناك: كوني عيناي”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لم تكن فلسطينُ تقبلُ القسمةَ على إثنين فقسموها على ثلاثة ،

ضفة و اسرائيل و غزة !”
― لـ فرح قدس

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإنه قد يموت بأي لحظة , رصاص بلاده كثير وطائش جداً, والسجن لديه مثل زيارة قريب ...عادية جداً ومكررة .”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإن لم يصبه الرصاص أو عتم السجن، أصابته الذكريات، نحن شعب لا ينسى.
لا تعشقيه أبداً فقد يصبح يوماً منفياً للأبد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لو يرجع الزمان لعام 1940 .. لأتيتك غداً بحافلات نقل حيفا - بيروت حاملاً لعينيك برتقالة من يافا و سمكتين من عكا و عشر حبات لوز أخضر من صفد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“هي عادة الفلسطينين، إنهم يشعرون دوماً بالقرب، فضوليين جدا، بإمكانك أن تذهب من الخليل إلى جنين في حافلة ركابها من شتى البلاد وتشعر أنك تعرفهم جميعاً وتود الحديث إليهم في أمور البلاد والعباد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“مات/ مات حزيناً مثل كل الاشياء في الوطن”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“الذي يراقبك بهدوء عن بعد، يريدك عن قرب وبكثافة”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“أن تعرف .. هذا شيء. وأن تفهم لهو شيء مختلف تماماً”.”
― سحر الموجي, ن

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“He's the best person I've known in my life, I said on the night when the tiny fishing boat on which he had sailed out with Anchise early that afternoon failed to return and we were scrambling to find his parents' telephone number in the States in case we had to break the terrible news.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.”
― J. Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

“The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.”
― J. Nozipo Maraire

“One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or later one must get old, agree to be judged, or sentenced, and to receive gifts of love … as unmerited. Morality is of no help. Only, truth … that is the uninterrupted seeking of it, the decision to tell it when one sees it, on every level, and to live it, gives a meaning, a direction to one’s march. But in an era of bad faith, the man who does not want to renounce separating true from false is condemned to a certain kind of exile - Albert Camus”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

“جَمال المرْأةِ لا يُرى....إنه يُكتَشَفْ ”
― مريد البرغوثي

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
― Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry