Anis Boudjadja

“تَحَمَّلْ عَظِيمَ الذَّنْبِ مِمَّنْ تُحِبُّهُ
وَإِنْ كُنْتَ مَظْلُومًا فَقُلْ أَنَا ظَالِمُ
فَإِنَّكَ إِلَّا تَغْفِرِ الذَّنْبَ فِي الْهَوَى
يُفَارِقْكَ مِنْ تَهْوَى وَأَنْفُكَ رَاغِمُ”
― العباس بن الأحنف, ديوان العباس بن الأحنف

“O fleeting stars, that softly mark my way,
Through distant lands and years that gently fade,
My heart, unyielding, holds thy name alone.
Each quiet hour, in shadows of my soul,
I muse on days when we might meet once more.

In crowded halls, where laughter veils the truth,
I wore a smile, yet thou wert ever near—
A thought unspoken, woven in my mind,
That stirred amidst the mirth I scarce believed.
No word confessed it, yet my spirit knew.

But soft, what fault have I, in blindness, sown?
With her, my gentle love, I strayed amiss—
A careless step, a moment’s frail misdeed.
Now, in this stillness, sorrow clouds my breast,
And whispers low: what grace have I undone?”
― Sheakespeare, The merchant of Venice

“Once was I fool’d by love, whose sharpen’d tongue did draw where heart’s wound bled. In tender years I err’d; in elder days, I mend. Regret is mine—but so too the will to grow more gentle than I was.”
― shakespeare-william, The Tempest

“Is any of it real? I mean, look at this, look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills! Psychological warfare in the form of advertising! Mind altering chemicals in the form of food! Brainwashing seminars in the form of media! Controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven't lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century! We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs, while we tossed the remnants into the ever expanding dumpster of the human condition. We live in branded houses, trademarked by corporations, built on bipolar numbers, jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen. You'd have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real.”
― Sam Esmail