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“أتراكَ تدري بأنّ حياتكَ مرهونة بذلِك التراكُض الوحشي المذعور؟أتراكَ تعرِف بأنك لو توقفت لأغرقكَ الدمُ ولانتهيت؟”
― غسان كنفاني, أرض البرتقال الحزين

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“اغفروا لي حزني وخمري وغضبي وكلماتي القاسية, بعضكم سيقول بذيئة, لا بأس .. أروني موقفا أكثر بذاءة مما نحن فيه”
― مظفر النواب

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!”
― Faiz Ahmed Faiz

“There can never be an absolutely final translation.”
― Robert M. Grant

“Dad wore his sadness like sunscreen, you couldn't see it, but the odor of it wafted off him in waves.”
― Diana Clarke

“I love you dad
More than you'll ever know
I know you'll be in heaven as a shining star
No matter how faraway you go
You are never too far”
― Jyoti Patel, The Curved Rainbow

“The mindset of loss of a loved one is to understand that the loss will never be undone. You must live with it, like it or not. But, to live well, you must turn that loss into something positive. That way, you can become the best version of yourself; scarred, flawed and unstoppable”
― Val Uchendu

“It's rally bad when dads cry.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men