

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
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“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”
― White Nights and Other Stories
― White Nights and Other Stories

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
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“ولما بدا لي أنها لا تحبني * وأن هواها ليس عني بمنجل
تمنيت أن تهوى سوايَ لعلها * تذوق صبابات الهوى فترق لي
وما كان إلا عن قليلٍ وأشغفت * بحب غزال أدعج الطرف أكحلِ
فعذبها حتى أذاب فؤادها * وذوقها طعم الهوى والتدللِ
فقلت لها هذا بذاك فأطرقت * حياءً وقالت كل ظالم مبتلي !!!
https://soundcloud.com/wael-katawy/ab...”
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تمنيت أن تهوى سوايَ لعلها * تذوق صبابات الهوى فترق لي
وما كان إلا عن قليلٍ وأشغفت * بحب غزال أدعج الطرف أكحلِ
فعذبها حتى أذاب فؤادها * وذوقها طعم الهوى والتدللِ
فقلت لها هذا بذاك فأطرقت * حياءً وقالت كل ظالم مبتلي !!!
https://soundcloud.com/wael-katawy/ab...”
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