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“هل تعرف لماذا صار الجاحظ هو الجاحظ والمتنبي هو المتنبي وتشارلز ديكينز هو تشارلز ديكينز؟.. كان الأمر سهلاً بالنسبة لهم لأنه لم يكن في بيوتهم هاتف!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, زغازيغ

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If there was one thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn’t catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sigh.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“How many things do we feel obliged to do for the sake of it, or for appearances, or because we are trained to do them, but which weigh us down and don’t in fact achieve anything?”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn’t happened? We talk of ‘regrets’ about the course of our lives, when we are almost certain we have taken the wrong decision; but one can also be enveloped in a sweet and mysterious euphoria, a sort of nostalgia for what might have been.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“What I really need is a friend just like me; I'm sure I'd be my own best friend.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Une existence entiere a lire l'aurait comble, elle ne lui avait pas ete donnee. Il aurait fallu choisir sa voie plus tot, savoir ce que l'on veut faire apres le baccalaureat. Avoir un projet de vie.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“-حياتي كارثة، ولكن ليس هذا هو الأخطر، المشكلة الحقيقية هي أنني أدرك ذلك...”
― مارتن باج, How I Became Stupid

“وصرت أشك فيمن أصطفيه لعلمي أنه بعض الأنام وعدت إلى الكتاب فهو أوفى وفي وخير صديق.”
― أحمد أمين, ‫حياتي‬

“وسعادتي بفهم الناس أكبر من سعادتي بالحكم عليهم”
― Stefan Zweig, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme

“لا يمكن أن أصف لك مرارتي ويأسي، لكنك تستطيع أن تتخيل ما شعرت به: ألا تكون في نظر إنسان منحتَه كل حياتك، أكثر من ذبابة تهُشها يدٌ كسلى بضجر.”
― Stefan Zweig, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski