Abrar

“The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis—“beyond stillness” in Latin—an”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“في ميكانيزم الدفاع تلتجئ الذات إلى الماضي وتحتمي به لتؤكد من خلاله وبواسطته شخصيتها ولذلك يعمد الإنسان إلى تضخميه وتمجيده مادام الخطر الخارجي قائما ، اما في ميكانيزم النهضة فالإنسان لا يطلب الماضي لذاته بل يختزله في " اصول" يعيد إحياءها، علي صعيد الوعي كذلك ، والانطلاق إلى المستقبل ، تفكيراً وممارسة . ”
― محمد عابد الجابري, إشكاليات الفكر العربي المعاصر

“Cancer, we have discovered, is stitched into our genome. Oncogenes [cancer causing cells] arise from mutations in essential genes that regulate the growth of cells. Mutations accumulate in these genes when DNA is damaged by carcinogens, but also by seemingly random errors in copying genes when cells divide. The former might be preventable, but the latter is endogenous [originating from within]. Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. We can rid ourselves of cancer, then, only as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in our physiology that depend on growth — aging, regeneration, healing, reproduction.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1