Michael Ibrahim

“المزعجُ في اليأس أنّه بديهيّ ومُوَثَّق وذو أسباب وجيهة: إنه ريبورتاج. والآن أمعِنوا النظر في الأمل. تأمّلُوا سَخاءَهُ في الغشّ، رُسُوخَهُ في التدجيل، رفضَه للأحداث: إنّه تيه وخيال. وفي هذا التيه تكمن الحياة ومن هذا الخيال تتغذّى.”
― إميل سيوران, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“الرذيلة الكبرى هي أن تكون مصطنعاً”
― أوسكار وايلد

“Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn’t afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I’d never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species and every whale and dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground. I wanted to burn the Louvre. I’d do the Elgin Marbles with a sledge-hammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club