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“ليست الحقيقة قاسية، ولكن الانفلات من الجهل مؤلم كالولادة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, Palace of Desire

“Artists and scientists are activists. They look at the world as changeable and they look upon themselves as instruments for change. They understand that the slice of world they occupy is only a fragment but that the fragment is intrinsically connected to the whole. They know that action matters.”
― Anne Bogart, What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling

“I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“I am a restrained person.
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― Anne Carson, An Oresteia