Mayar Azab

“بعضنا يعيش عُمره حَسرةً علي قِطار فاته.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of one door, one of us flicks an eyelash and the other is already behind his door, and now the first one has but to utter a word ad immediately the second one has closed his door behind him and can no longer be seen. He's sure to open the door again for it's a room which perhaps one cannot leave. If only the first one were not precisely like the second, if he were calm, if he would only pretend not to look at the other, if he slowly set the room in order as though it were a room like any other; but instead he does exactly the same as the other at his door, sometimes even both are behind the doors and the the beautiful room is empty.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“لا نضرب موعداً ولا نتفق على شيىء ،ولكن بعد أن أوصلها إلى مكتبها ،تقول قبل أن تنزل من السياره : إلى اللقاء ...ونعلم دون كلام أننا سنكون فى المقهى غداًفى الموعد نفسه .”
― بهاء طاهر, الحب في المنفى

“I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena