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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

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

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“على الإنسان أن يتعوّد .
يجب أن يتعوّد على كُل شيء :
البرد ، الوحدة ، الضجر ، وتراءت لي كلمة هزيمة
كدّت أقولها ، لكنْ غصّة أقربُ إلى يدٍ ثقيلة حزّت رقبتي .”
― عبد الرحمن منيف

“كما قلت لك : ( قلب الرجل لا يخلو من امرأة ) , قد تكون امرأة حية أو ميتة, قد تكون زوجة أو صديقة, وقد تكون شيئًا آخر. دائمًا توجد امرأة.

أمّا إذا رأيت رجلاً ليس في قلبه امرأة فتأكّد أن ما تراه ليس رجلاً, إنه جثّة تريد قبرًا.”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, الأشجار واغتيال مرزوق