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“فإذا دخل مثقال ذرة من كبر في قلبك بسبب أنك أصبحت الان من "القراء" فليتك ثم ليتك ما علمت ولا قرأت ولا تثقفت”
― سالم بن محمد القحطاني, مقاليد القراءة

“المثقف الذي لا يترجم فكره إلى فعل لا يستحق لقب المثقف”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“كل الأشياء الجميلة تنتهي! كل الأشياء الحزينة تنتهي!”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“إن المطلوب هو حداثة جديدة تتبنى العلم والتكنولوجيا ولا تضرب بالقيم أو بالغائية الإنسانية عرض الحائط ، حداثة تحيى العقل ولا تميت القلب ، تنمى وجودنا المادى ولا تنكر الأبعاد الروحية لهذا الوجود ، تعيش الحاضر دون أن تنكر التراث”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“I’ve always suspected that a sense of humour is a kind of parlour trick we civilized folk have taught ourselves as an insurance against disillusionment.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree

“She should have known.

If you loved people you should know about them.

You didn't know because it was so much easier to believe the pleasant, easy things that you would like to be true, and not distress yourself with the things that really were true.”
― Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring

“You can't win when you're fighting someone who doesn't know there is a fight.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree

“What is the real truth of a human creature who can appear so differently to different people?'
Robert, who seldom joined in our conversations, moved restlessly and said rather unexpectedly:
'But isn't that just the point? People do appear differently to different people. So do things. Trees, for instance, or the sea. Two painters would give you an entirely different idea of St Loo harbour.'
'You mean one painter would paint it naturalistically and another symbolically?'
Robert shook his head rather wearily. He hated talking about painting. He never could find the words to express what he meant.
'No,' he said. 'They'd actually see it differently. Probably—I don't know—you pick out of everything the things in it which are significant to you.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree

“You can take it from me, Averil, that a man who's not doing the work he wants to do—the work he was made to do—is only half a man. I tell you as surely as I'm standing here, that if you take Rupert Cargill away from his work and make it impossible for him to go on with that work, the day will come when you will have to stand by and see the man you love unhappy, unfulfilled—old before his time—tired and disheartened—only living with half his life. And if you think your love, or any woman's love, can make up to him for that, then I tell you plainly that you're a damned sentimental little fool.”
― Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring

“Better to wear out than to rust out!”
― Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring

“You are alone and you always will be. But, please God, you'll never know it.”
― Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring

“That was why she had had to come here, to the desert. This clear, terrible light would show her what she was. Would show her the truth of all the things she hadn't wanted to look at—the things that, really, she had known all along.”
― Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring