Ahmed

“الناس عبيد لما عرفوا و أعداء لما جهلوا”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, إحياء علوم الدين

“One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscious needs. It would be important if it only touched the conscious mind, as expository writing does. But fiction is important, too, because it teaches the unconscious.”
― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

“When I was a medical student some pranksters at an end-of-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby