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“الفتن التي تتخفى وراء قناع الدين تجارة رائجة جدًا في عصور التراجع الفكري للمجتمعات”
― ابن خلدون

“انتهت صداقتنا ليس بمشاجرة أو موقف عنيف، وإنما هي حالة من القرف والملل التدريجي ... ما ينتهي ببطء لا يعود بسرعة .. لا يعود أبدًا ..!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“قد نضيق بالحبّ إذا وُجد، ولكن شَدَّ مانفتقده إذا ذهب.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“سألت الشيخ عبد ربه :

- ما علامة الكفر؟

- فأجاب دون تردد:

- الضجر”
― نجيب محفوظ, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“ لا يستطيع أحد أن يحرس عزلته إذا لم يعرف كيف يكون بغيضاً ”
― إميل سيوران, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“المللُ يصنع المعجزات ، حين نتعلم كيف نغترف من الفراغ ملء اليدين”
― إميل سيوران

“حذارِ من المفكرين الذين لا تعمل عقولهم إلا انطلاقًا من الاقتباس”
― إميل سيوران

“العقل هو المستفيد الكبير من هزائم الجسد. يثري على حسابه, يسلبه , يهلل لمآسيه , يعيش على اللصوصية؟
الحضارة مدينة بنجاحها لقاطع طريق.”
― إميل سيوران, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game.

We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for hours, take cute pictures together, make promises to each other and hold each other.

And whoever falls in love first, loses.”
― Lyla Tyela Belikov

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“ولكن الإخلاص لا يُطلب؛ إن في طلبه استجداءً ومهانة للحب. فإن لم يكن حالة عفوية، فهو ليس أكثر من تحايل دائم على شهوة الخيانة، وقمع لها. أي أنّه خيانة من نوع آخر. ولذا أجد في تسمية الخيانة بالمغامرة قلبا للحقيقة. إنّ المغامرة الحقيقية هي الوفاء.. لأنها الأصعب حتما.”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay