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“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

“هناك فرق شاسع بين حريّة التعبير وحريّة الترديد. فالأولى ممارسة خلّاقة.. والثانية ممارسة مزعجة.”
― أشرف إحسان فقيه

“لا يوجد بالسعودية تيار إسلامي. يوجد “مطاوعة” لهم مصالح سياسية وشعبية وثارات.
لا يوجد بالسعودية تيار ليبرالي. يوجد “أعداء المطاوعة”، وهؤلاء أيضاً لهم مصالح وثارات سياسية وشعبية.”
― أشرف إحسان فقيه

“نعم .. لم نعد نعيش في القرية, بل لم تعد القرية كلها موجودة, ولكن القرية لا تريد ان تتركنا, وأسوء مافي القرية لا يزال يعيش في أعماقنا, ويحكم تصرفاتنا, رغم كل ما تغير ويتغير.
غريبة هي الايام.. يتحدثون عن الأصالة, وأكثرهم لا ينتقون من الأصالة الا أسواء مافي التاريخ .. الأصالة عندهم هي وأد البنات .. ليس بالضرورة ان يكون الوأد ملموساً,فأقساه ما كان وأداً للذات ..مجرمون هم الرجال .. لا .. بل مقصرات هن النساء .. فمن تقبل على نفسها أن تنادى بـ((هيش )) ,تسحق ان تكون اي شي , وان يفعل بها أي شيء,الا أن تكون انساناً”
― تركي الحمد, جروح الذاكرة

“الجمال والقبح ليسا في ذات الأشياء ، ولكنهما في الذات التي تتعامل مع الأشياء ، وفي الظرف الذي تكون فيه الأشياء”
― تركي الحمد, الكراديب

“من لا يعاني ، تصبح كلماته مجرد جمع من حروف لا معنى له ، حتى و إن كان هذا الجمع عقد من الجواهر الفريد”
― تركي الحمد, الكراديب

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”
― Virginia Wolfe

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The only sin is the sin of being born”
― Samuel Beckett

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Estragon: Nothing to be done.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
― Sophocles

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky