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“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

“أنا لا اوافق على ما تقول و لكني سأقف حتى الموت مدافعا عن حقك في أن تقول ما تريد”
― Ernesto Guevara

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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

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

“Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
― Timothy Leary

“All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Reach what you cannot”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“كان ذلك زمن الاشتباك . أقول هذا لأنك لا تعرف: إن العالم وقتئذ يقلب على رأسه، لا أحد يطالبه بالفضيلة. سيبدو مضحكًا من يفعل.. أن تعيش كيفما كان و بأية وسيلة هو انتصار مرموق للفضيلة. حسنًا حين يموت المرء تموت الفضيلة أيضًا. أليس كذلك؟ إذن دعنا نتفق بأنه في زمن الاشتباك يكون من مهمتك أن تحقق الفضيلة الأولى، أي أن تحتفظ بنفسك حيًا. و فيما عدا ذلك يأتي ثانيًا. و لأنك في اشتباك مستمر فإنه لا يوجد ثانيًا: أنت دائمًا لا تنتهي من أولًا.”
― غسان كنفاني, برقوق نيسان، القميص المسروق وقصص أخرى

“ليــس المهـم أن يمـوت الإنســان، قبــل أن يحقــق فكــرته النبيلــة... بــل المهــم أن يجــد لنفســه فكـــرة نبيلــة قبــل أن يمــوت”
― غسان كنفاني