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“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“إنّ العُيُونَ التي في طَرْفِها حَوَرٌ،
قتلننا ثمَّ لمْ يحيينَ قتلانا
يَصرَعنَ ذا اللُّبّ حتى لا حَرَاكَ بهِ،
و هنَّ أضعفُ خلقْ اللهِ أركانا”
― جرير

“السهولة التي تنتشر فيها بعض الآراء وتصبح عامة تعود بشكل خاص إلى عجز معظم الناس عن تشكيل رأي خاص مستوحى من تجاربهم الشخصية في المحاكمة والتعقل.”
― غوستاف لوبون, سيكولوجية الجماهير

“لقد محا الحنين - كالعادة - الذكريات السيئة , وضخم الطيبة . ليس هناك من ينجو من آثاره المخربة”
― جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary W. Shelley

“ وقد تعلمت من هذه التجارب أن النجاح والفشل في الحياة العامة حسب المعايير السائدة ليس بالضرورة حكماً مصيباً أو نهائياً، وأن الإنسان قد يفشل بالمعايير السائدة، ولكنه قد ينجح بمعايير أكثر أصالة وإبداعاً”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية في البذور والجذور والثمر: سيرة غير ذاتية غير موضوعية

“الإنسان السعيد المتزن تقل انتاجيته بعض الشيء إذ تصبح أهدافه في الحياة إنسانية”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية في البذور والجذور والثمر: سيرة غير ذاتية غير موضوعية

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Everything nourishes what is strong already”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice