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“I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I was wasn’t anywhere at all. My life felt empty and unreal... I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“في بلداننا تقوم الثورات باسم الشعب و يجد الشعب نفسه مطروداً و مرمياً على الطرقات”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون

“غالباً ما يدور الحديث عن سحر الكتب و لا يقال بما فيه الكفاية إن هذا السحر مزدوج؛ فهناك سحر قراءتها و هناك سحر الحديث عنها”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون