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Ghaidaa Kotb
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“لقد كنت في رومة "ابن الافريقي" و سوف تكون في إفريقية "ابن الرومي". و أينما تكون فسيرغب بعضهم في التنقيب في جلدك و صلواتك. فأحذر أن تدغدغ غريزتهم يا بني ، و حاذر أن ترضخ لوطأة الجمهور ! فمسلماً كنت أو يهودياً أو نصرانياً عليهم أن يرتضوك كما أنت ، أو أن يفقدوك. و عندما يلوح لك ضيق عقول الناس فقل لنفسك أرض الله واسعة ، و رحبة هي يداه و قلبه. و لا تتردد قطّ في الإبتعاد الى ما وراء جميع البحار ، الى ما وراء التخوم والأوطان و المعتقدات”
― Leo Africanus
― Leo Africanus
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
Ghaidaa’s 2025 Year in Books
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