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“إن العلماء ينتمون إلى عصرهم فقط، أما الشعراء فإنهم ينتمون لكل العصور”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly for it expresses a need”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“بلقيسُ..
كانتْ أجملَ المَلِكَاتِ في تاريخ بابِِلْ
بلقيسُ ..
كانت أطولَ النَخْلاتِ في أرض العراقْ
كانتْ إذا تمشي ..
ترافقُها طواويسٌ ..
وتتبعُها أيائِلْ ..”
― نزار قباني, قصيدة بلقيس

“It's leviOsa, not levioSA!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I've had casual boyfriends but never became really attached to any man. The older I grew the more attached I became to the revolution.”
― Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary as Told to George Hajjar

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“And once a lady by my side
Gave me a harp, and bid me sing,
And touch the laughing silver string;
But when I sang of human joy
A sorrow wrapped each merry face,
And, patrick! by your beard, they wept,
Until one came, a tearful boy;
'A sadder creature never stept
Than this strange human bard,' he cried;
And caught the silver harp away,
And, weeping over the white strings, hurled
It down in a leaf-hid, hollow place
That kept dim waters from the sky;
And each one said, with a long, long sigh,
'O saddest harp in all the world,
Sleep there till the moon and the stars die!”
― W.B. Yeats, 100 Selected Poems

“It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France

“من السهل طمس الحقيقة بحيلة لغوية بسيطة: ابدأ حكايتك من ُثانيا!”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله