Adel Adel Abbas

“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“كانِتْ ملاذ الغريب ورغيف للجَايْعِين
جُوَّه وبرَّه العَدُو دَاقِقْ أسافِينُه
فَقَرُوهَا وِلْد الغَبِيَّة وطَمَّعُوا الطامْعِين
!!والِعجْل لَمَّا يُقَع تِكْتَر سَكَاكِينُه”
― عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts.”
― Seneca