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“و تنتشرين أمامي
صفوفا من الكائنات التي لا تسمى
و ما وطني غير هذي العيون التي
تجهل الأرض جسما..
و أسهر فيك على خنجر
واقف في جبين الطفولة
هو الموت مفتتح الليلة الحلوة القادمة
و أنت جميلة
كعصفورة نادمة..”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“حُريتي: أن أكونَ كما لا يريدون لي أن أكون”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays