Sarah

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“وفررت مني حتى لا تُحَمِّلَ نفسك مئونة النظر إلى شقاءٍ أنت صاحبه، ولا تكلف يدك مسح دموعٍ أنت مُرْسِلُهَا”
― المنفلوطى

“I resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living,
that I would know what was accounted poetry everywhere, what part of poetry
was "indestructible," what part could not be lost by translation and—scarcely less
important—what effects were obtainable in one language only and were utterly
incapable of being translated.”
― Ezra Pound, Collected Early Poems

“There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau