Seif Borgi

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“But for me to remember my hurt, Nastenka. For me to chase a black cloud over your bright untroubled happiness. For me to put sadness into your heart with a bitter reproach, to sting it with secret remorse and make it beat mournfully at the moment of bliss. To rumple at least one of these delicate flowers you'd woven into your black curls when you went to the alter with him.. Oh never, never! May your sky be clear, may your dear smile be bright and carefree, and may you be blessed for the moment of enjoyment and happiness you'd given to another lonely and grateful heart. My god, a moment of bliss, is that too little for an entire human life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money