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“الفواجع - كما يبدو - لا تزيلها.. إلا فواجعُ طريةٌ للتوِّ وقعتْ !”
― سيف الإسلام بن سعود بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, قلب من بنقلان

“الانسان الذي يعتمد على الآخرين في رفع معنوياته يفقد نفسه حين يفقدهم”
― واسيني الأعرج

“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“إنَّ التَضارُبَ بَينَ ما تُريدُ وَ ما يُمكِنُ يَجعَلُكَ تُؤثِرُ البَقاءَ عَلى التَغييرِ
خاصَّةً إِذا كانَتِ المُجازَفَةُ بِمَشاعِرِكَ أَو مَشاعِرِ غَيرِكَ”
― محمد أبو الفتوح غنيم, الوساوس

“إِذا زَهِدَ المَرءُ أُبدِيَ لَهُ الودّ حَتّى إِذا أَبدى الود زُهِدَ فيه”
― محمد أبو الفتوح غنيم, الوساوس

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“كل الناس ياجمال يحبّون الآخرين على الصّورة التي رأوهم عليها أول مرة !”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“كلّ ما نفعله من أشياء جيدة للناس الذين نحبهم لا ليحبونا فقـــط، بل لينسوا أننا أخطأنا حين نخطىء”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, طيور الحذر

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”
― Hafez

“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera

“underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.”
― Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, And a Few Differences

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“الأرق مثل النوم ,يحملك إلى مناطقك المنسية ويجعلك تنبش لفائفها ولغاتها على رجاء إجلاء الذاكرة من حمولتها المعوِّقة .”
― محمد برادة

“I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.”
― Denis Diderot

“تغيب ....فأُسْرجُ خيل ظنوني”
― سعدية مفرح

“إننا نموت بشكل متجزئ! يموت الفرح، تموت الذاكرة، تنحني الأشواق
ندخل في الرتابة، ثم ننسحب
نشيخ بسرعة، وبشكل مذهل
شيء ما يتأكل يوميا في داخلنا ولا نشعر”
― واسيني الأعرج

“كلنا قد تاب يوما

ثم ألفى نفسه

قد تاب عما تاب”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“السنوات التي احملها كالجثث على ظهري.”
― ربيع جابر, دروز بلغراد: حكاية حنا يعقوب

“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
― Christopher Hitchens