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“Paul is a strange fellow. He looks into the faces of people who pass us by. He tells me that in their eyes he reads the story of their souls. He knows men and women and the little children, and why they look this way and that way. He knows the reasons that turn them to and fro and cause them to go and come. I think I shall walk a space through the world with my friend Paul. He is very wise, he knows the language of God which I have not learned.”
― Kate Chopin

“وَقَد تَلتَقي الأَشتاتُ بَعدَ تَفَرُّقٍ

وَقَد تُدرَكُ الحاجاتُ وَهيَ بَعيدُ”
― جميل بن عبد الله بن معمر

“أَغارُ عليكَ مِنْ شوقِ الطَّريقِ
ومِنْ حَنانِ البيتْ
مِنَ الصَّوتِ الذي أَشجاكَ
والأُذنِ التي أَشْجَيْتْ
مِنَ الحزنِ الذي أَبكاكَ
والعينِ التي أَبْكَيْت

أُفَكِّرُ أَنَّ سيِّدَةً سوايَ
تنفَّسَتْ شَفَتَيْكْ
لها عينانِ أَبْحَرَتَا
بعيدًا في خطوطِ يَدَيْكْ
تشبّ النَّارُ في رُوحي
فأَهربُ مِنْكَ فيكَ إِلَيْكْ!!”
― أحمد بخيت, الليالي الأربع

“I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Some one has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they make me suffer. Can one of them talk to me like the night – the Summer night? Like the stars or the caressing wind?”
― Kate Chopin