Sarah

“فعلا، أنا أكثر أنانية- وربما أذكى قليلا- من الذين أدخل معهم في علاقات: شخص مهووس بنفسي وعندي قابلية على الضجر تجعلني أتصرف بطريقة تغيظ، وربما من المستحيل أن يكون الشخص الذي معي سعيدا...

عندي قابلية على العزلة واحتقارا دفنا للناس، بالذات في أمورهم الإجتماعية....

إني أريد أن أكون كما أنا طوال الوقت بغض النظر عن السياق، ولأني لست مستعدا للتنازل أو التواؤم دائما ما أعاني النتائج...”
― يوسف رخا, كتاب الطغرى: غرائب التاريخ في مدينة المريخ

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge--he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil--he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor--he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire--he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy--all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is desired to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was--that robot of the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love--he was not man.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“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