Mohamad Jaber

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“وتسأل: ما معنى كلمة وطن؟
سيقولون:هو البيت،وشجرة التوت ،وقن الدجاج،وقفير النحل،ورائحة الخبزو السماء الأولى.
وتسأل: هل تتسع كلمة واحدةمن ثلاثة أحرف لكل هذه المحتويات،وتضيق بنا؟”
― محمود درويش, في حضرة الغياب

“Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,
senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?”
― August Strindberg, The Father