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“سُئل الشيخ علي الطنطاوي عندما اشتكى من الفراغ وقالوا له : لماذا لا تملؤ وقتك بالقراءة ؟ قال : ومن يقرأ أكثر مني ؟ أنا من سبعين سنة وإلى الآن , من يوم كنت صبيا , أقرأ كل يوم مئة صفحة على الأقل , وأقرأ أحيانا ثلاثمئة أو أكثر , مالي عمل إلا القراءة .. وقال : لقد قرأت أكثر من نصف مليون صفحة .”
― علي الطنطاوي, ذكريات علي الطنطاوي - الجزء الثامن

“القلب منزل أقدس شيئين بالوجود ، الإيمان والحب ، وحسب العقل جمودا وعجزا أنه لا يستطيع أن يفهم الحب ولا يدرك الإيمان”
― علي الطنطاوي

“ إن الحرية عبء ثقيل على الشعوب التي لم تحضرها نخبتها لتحمل مسؤوليات استقلالها ”
― مالك بن نبي, من أجل التغيير

“In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

“It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
― Walt Whitman

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“he is blind in his love
and he sees
no other beauty
save her he loves
who will cost him his life”
― Vasko Popa

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

“المشكلة هي أنت بالضبط! لا ينفع في هذه الدنيا أن تكون نصف طيب ونصف شرير. نصف وطني ونصف خائن, نصف شجاع ونصف جبان. نصف مؤمن ونصف عاشق. دائما في منتصف شيء ما.”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“وكم حار عشّاق ولا مثل حيرتي ...إذا شئـــت يوما أن أسوء حبيبي
وهل لي قلبٌ غير قلبي يســــــوؤه...ويأخذ لــي في الــكبرياء نصيبي
ألا ليت لي قلبين: قلب بحبـــــه مر...يض وقلـــــــــب بعد ذاك طبيبي
ويا ليت لي نفسين: من رئم روضةٍ...ألـُوفٍ ومن ذي لـُبدتين غصوب ِ
فو الله أن الحب خيـــــــر محاسني ...و والله إن الحب شــــــر عيوبي”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“بعض الجروح والأمراض المستعصية تحتاج فى كثير من الأحيان إلى البتر والحسم
لأن الإبقاء عليها على حالاتها الأولى لا يمكنه إلا أن يزيد من قسوة الأشياء
آلام البتر أحياناً أهون من الأنين اليومى فى مكان معزول ولا من يسمعك”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Ten kings met once a year to decide about water sharing, fixing customs, excise, and toll rates, port levies, and to exchange musicians and artisans. An”
― Anand Neelakantan, Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished

“Love makes you weak. Love has unseen bondages that take you into the abyss of failure at that crucial moment when victory and failure get balanced. Beware of love.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished

“I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book...for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.”
― Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale

“Fridrik sat many a night by a smoking lamp, translating into Danish descriptions of the latest methods of keeping us poor humans alive, while on pallets around him lay the corpses, beyond any aid, despite the encouraging news of advances in electrical cures.”
― Sjon , The Blue Fox

“In the halls of heaven it was now dark enough for the Aurora Borealis sisters to begin their lively dance of the veils. With an enchanting play of colors they flitted light and quick about the great stage of the heavens, in fluttering golden dresses, their tumbling pearl necklaces scattering here and there in their wild caperings.”
― Sjón, The Blue Fox: A Novel

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
― John Henry Newman

“الإنسان هو الكائن الذي يتعود كل شئ!
أظن أن هذا أحسن تعريف للإنسان ..”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
― Charles Nodier