Osama

“وقال لي :
سِرْ ، فأنا دليلك إليّ”
― محمد بن عبد الجبار النفري

“Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves; from afar we see their war as the triumph of barbarity; but it proceeds on its own to gradually emancipate the fighter and progressively eliminates the colonial darkness inside and out. As soon as it begins it is merciless. Either one must remain terrified or become terrifying—which means surrendering to the dissociations of a fabricated life or conquering the unity of one’s native soil. When the peasants lay hands on a gun, the old myths fade, and one by one the taboos are overturned: a fighter’s weapon is his humanity. For in the first phase of the revolt killing is a necessity: killing a European is killing two birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed: leaving one man dead and the other man free;”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“هل أسخر؟ أسخر كثيراً. فالسخرية وهي البكاء المُبطن خير من دموع الاستعطاف، لأن الأجل قد امتد بنا الي ما دون أرذل العمر.

اضحك، يا ولدي، اضحك، فليس في وسعنا أن ننساق في لغة الحزن أكثر مما انسقنا، فلنوقفها بالسخرية، لا لأن السخرية هي اليأس وقد تهذب كما يقولون، بل لأنها لا تثير الشفقة.”
― محمود درويش, الرسائل

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena