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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“أريد رائحة القهوة ..
لا أريد غير رائحة القهوة ..
ولا أريد من الأيام كلها غير رائحة - القهوة -”
― محمود درويش, ذاكرة للنسيان

“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“هو احنا مش من امبارح
بنقول نفسنا نبقى بكره؟
ادينا بقينا بكره وبعد بكره
ولسه احنا برضه..امبارح”
― وليد طاهر, حبة هوا...

“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“فقط لأ نَّني كبحرٍ

أغرقُ وأنجو

بمُفردي.”
― سوزان عليوان, ما يفوق الوصف

“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
― Anthony Burgess, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“لا يشعر المرء بقيمة ما يملكه لأنه دائما ينظر إلى ما يفتقده”
― فاطمة عبد المنعم

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – and I said: ‘That’s a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?’ Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high preaching goloss: ‘—The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen—”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposedly fake reality”
― Menna Anwar

“من يستطيع الإفلات من الحياة ؟! لا يمكنك أن ترجع إلى الوراء. ولايمكنك أن تهرب إلى الأمام، الحياة كما تعرف يا ولدي ورطة حقيقية.”
― محمد الأشعري, القوس والفراشة

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“أريدك بمقدار ما لا أستطيع أخذك، وأستطيع اخذك بمقدار ما ترفضين ذلك، وأنت ترفضين ذلك بمقدار ما تريدين الاحتفاظ بنا معاً، وأنا وأنت نريد أن نظل معاً بمقدار ما يضعنا ذلك في اختصام دموي مع العالم!!!”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide