Aicha

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Tomorrow, everyone who is beautiful will come under suspicion. As will those with talent and those with character.” His voice was hoarse. “Don’t you understand? To be called beautiful will be an insult; talent will be called a provocation, and character an outrage. Because it’s their turn now, and they will appear everywhere, from everywhere, emerging in their hundreds of millions and more. Everywhere. The ugly ones, the talentless, those without any character. And they’ll throw vitriol in the face of beauty. They will tar and slander talent. They will stab through the heart anyone with character. They’re here already … And there’ll be more of them. Be careful!”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“العزلة هي أيضاً حالة في منتهى الخصوصية. أحياناً تَمثُل كغابة ممتلئة بالمخاطر والمفاجآت. أنا أعرف كل تنوعاتها. السأم الذي تحاول عبثاً جعله يتوارى مستعيناً بنسق حياة منظمة بشكل اصطناعي. الأزمات المتكررة وغير ، المتوقعة. العزلة هي مكان طافح بالأسرار، مثل الغابة.”
― شاندور ماراي, اللقاء الأخير