Huda

“These days I keep noticing how my feelings towards men - and the feelings of all the other women - are changing. We feel sorry for them; they seem so miserable and powerless. The weaker sex. Deep down we women are experiencing a kind of collective disappointment. The Nazi world - ruled by men, glorifying the strong man - is beginning to crumble, and with it the myth of "Man". In earlier wars men could claim that the privilege of killing and being killed for the fatherland was theirs and theirs alone. Today, we women, too, have a share. That has transformed us, emboldened us. Among the many defeats at the end of this war is the defeat of the male sex.”
― Marta Hillers, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

“إن صديقي بفعل دعابته حتمًا، ما كان من الممكن أن يصبح جلادًا أبدًا”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter

“This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together.”
― John Berger, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

“و هذا كله دون أي تهويل، دون أي إتهام، دون أي ضحك أصفر، فقط بغلالة خفيفة، خفيفة من الحزن”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter