Oumneya Mahmoud

“Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper. The world had made him extravagant and vain—Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Three years ago, my journey began with me stepping through that gate, and now, it comes to an end with me stepping through it again. Why does it feel as if the boundaries of the beginning and the end are so far apart, when in fact, they’re much too close together. The sense of distance probably comes from the human habit of separating and classifying and distinguishing, which sets the human heart at ease.”
― Jang Eun-Jin, No One Writes Back

“I don’t like travel books that are half full of photographs. Sometimes, you can’t tell whether the book was written for travel, or the travel was undertaken for the book. What I dislike even more are people who like to show off their travels. You can’t tell whether they travel for themselves, or to show other people. People who show off their travels do so because really, they don’t have anything.”
― Jang Eun-Jin, No One Writes Back

“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.”
― Erasmus, Desideri Erasmi Roterodami Convivia E Conloquiis Familiaribus Selecta