Shimaa Salah

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“يا بشر عرفاني و عارفه أنا مين
بلغوا أسفي لكل البلالين
كلنا كنا ف يوم بالونة
فقعتنا تجارب بني أدمين”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, ويسترن يونيون فرع الهرم

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert