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“ليتني حجر
لا أحنُّ إلى أيِّ شيء
فلا أمسِ يمضي،
ولا الغَدُ يأتي
ولا حاضري يتقدَّمُ أو يتراجعُ
لا شيءَ يحدُثُ لي!”
― محمود درويش

“It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.' He has no home; he is unhappy. I could be the source of his joy, the refuge of his life. And I can only pass on. Something in me wants more. I can't rest. Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath