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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“وداعا أيها الغريب
كانت إقامتك قصيرة، لكنها كانت رائعة
عسى أن تجد جنتك التي فتشت عنها كثيرا

وداعا أيها الغريب

كانت زيارتك رقصة من رقصات الظل
قطرة من قطرات الندى قبل شروق الشمس
لحناً سمعناه لثوان من الدغل
ثم هززنا رؤوسنا وقلنا أننا توهمناه

وداعا أيها الغريب
لكن كل شيء ينتهي!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة النبوءة

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“أنت لست جميلاً ولا أنا جميلة . الحب وحده هو الجميل والحب وحده يرينا الجمال”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“عادة ما أشعر انى خفيفة قادرة على ان أطير وأنا مستقرة فى مقعد أقرأ رواية ممتعة. حين أشعر بنفسى ثقيلة أعرف أنى على مشارف نوبة جديدة من الاكتئاب”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“كن كما أنت .. وسوف تهديك نفسك إلى الصراط”
― مصطفى محمود

“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

“انا زى زيـــــــــك ....معنديش حاجه تمنعنى من دخول جهنم
غير قوله
يــــــــــــــا رب”
― أحمد العايدي, العشق السادي

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“نجني من بلدة لا صوت يغشاها
سوي صوت السكوت!
أهلها موتي يخافون المنايا
والقبور انتشرت فيها علي شكل بيوت
مات حتي الموت
والحاكم فيها لايموت!”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“لم نفترق . لكننا لن نلتقي أَبداً”
― محمود درويش

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
― William Hazlitt

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“وأدرك أنه صار ميتاً مثل كثيرين من حوله يتحركون ولكن لا يعرفون أنهم فارقوا حياتهم.. لحظتها مَسَّ قلبه يقين الموت، فارتاح، لأن الفناء راحة
والحياةَ مِحَالٌ.”
― يوسف زيدان, محال

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”
― Ovid

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
― Charles Bukowski

“التفاؤل في هذه الظروف يكاد يكون وقاحة”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور