
“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― The Risk
― The Risk

“Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines."
"Exactly. But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.”
― The Midnight Library
"Exactly. But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.”
― The Midnight Library

“-أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله .”
― عائد إلى حيفا
― عائد إلى حيفا
“To defeat a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul. —Lana Myers”
― Scarlet Angel
― Scarlet Angel

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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