Mohammed El-sayed

“لا سبيل للتفاهم بيننا، فأنت ممن يخافون الحياة وأنا ممن يزدرونها، وجميع ما ترتعد منه لمجرد تصوره؛ قد عانيته.. جميع ما تسأل الله ألا يقع قد ذهبت إليه فوق قدمي.”
― نجيب محفوظ, قلب الليل

“Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him. His mother’s face, his First Communion, women he had known. The faces of men as they died on their knees before him. The body of a child dead in a roadside ravine in another country.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“1 نزلت عليه الحرية كالوحي فملأه يقينا لا سبيل إلى الشك فيه , أنه حر يفعل ما يشاء كيف شاء حين شاء , غير مذعن لقوة أو خاضع لعلة , لسبب خارجي أو باعث باطني. حل مسألة الإرادة في ثانية واحدة , وأنقذها بحماس فائق من وطأة العلل , وداخله شعور بالسعادة والتفوق عجيب , فألقى نظرة ازدراء على الخلق الذين يضربون في جوانب السبل مسيرين مصفدين لا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا , إذا ساروا لم يملكوا أن يقفوا , وإذا وقفوا لم يملكوا أن يسيروا ...

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إن انقضاء الليل والنهار يُنسي , ومن ينغمر في الدنيا يذهل على نفسه , وللحياة جلبة تبتلع همسات الضمير .”
― نجيب محفوظ, همس الجنون

“This country was hard on people. But they never seemed to hold it to account. In a way that seems peculiar. That they didn't. You think about what all has happened to just this one family. I don't know what I'm doin here still knockin around. All them young people. We don't know where half of em is even buried at. You got to ask what was the good in all that. So I go back to that. How come people dont feel like this country has got a lot to answer for? They dont. You can say that the country is just the country, it dont actively do nothin, but that dont mean much...This country will kill you in a heartbeat and people still love it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men