Fatema Ibrahim
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“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“إن اللبن سائل ملهم.. ألا ترى هذا معي؟ ما إن تضعه على النار حتى تتداعى ذكرياتك.. وتخطر لك آلاف الأفكار العبقرية.. وتتذكر مواعيد لم تف بها.. ومكالمات هاتفية لم تجرها.. المهم أن كل شىء يدعوك لنسيان اللبن الذي على الموقد.. وتفيق لرشدك لتجد البركان الأبيض يثور بحممه.. وتدرك أنك تأخرت ثانيتين مصيريتين”
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“عيناك غابتا نخيل ساعة السحر
أو شرفتان راح ينأى عنهما القمر
عيناك حين تبسمان تورق الكروم
وترقص الأضواء...كالأقمار في نهر
يرجه المجداف وهناً ساعة السحر
كأنما تنبض في غوريهما النجوم
وتغرقان في ضباب من أسى شفيف
كالبحر سرح اليدين فوقه المساء
دفء الشتاء فيه وارتعاشة الخريف
والموت والميلاد والظلام والضياء
فتستفيق ملء روحي رعشة البكاء
ونشوة وحشية تعانق السماء
كنشوة الطفل إذا خاف من القمر”
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أو شرفتان راح ينأى عنهما القمر
عيناك حين تبسمان تورق الكروم
وترقص الأضواء...كالأقمار في نهر
يرجه المجداف وهناً ساعة السحر
كأنما تنبض في غوريهما النجوم
وتغرقان في ضباب من أسى شفيف
كالبحر سرح اليدين فوقه المساء
دفء الشتاء فيه وارتعاشة الخريف
والموت والميلاد والظلام والضياء
فتستفيق ملء روحي رعشة البكاء
ونشوة وحشية تعانق السماء
كنشوة الطفل إذا خاف من القمر”
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“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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