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قصر الشوق

by Naguib Mahfouz

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Der zerbrochne Krug

by Heinrich von Kleist

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“Given all she has suffered, the God they told her was all she needed could not hold her faith intact. For any young person, if the deity she hears about is not manifested in the actions of the people who make up her world, the God-word turns into hypocrisy. If she does retain an image of God, it’s likely to be the vindictive moralizer who judges her mercilessly or the impotent sky phantom I rejected as a child.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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“If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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“You see, once you start observing the night sky, you begin to orient yourself in time and space.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

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“History is a silent record of people who could not leave, it is a record of those who did not have a choice, you cannot leave when you have nowhere to go and have not the means to go there, you cannot leave when your children cannot get a passport, cannot go when your feet are rooted in the earth and to leave means tearing off your feet.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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“وجد الأطباء المصريون أنفسهم في موقف يحتم عليهم التنافس مع رؤسائهم الأتراك والأوروبيين، ويحتم عليهم في نفس الوقت أن يتميزوا عن مواطنيهم المتحدثين بالعربية، وأدركوا أن عليهم أن يتباعدوا قدر الإمكان عن أصولهم الريفية المتواضعة. وفي إصرارهم العنيد على الترقي في السلم الاجتماعي، رأوا في العلم أداة تساعدهم على تحقيق الصعود. كان العلم بالنسبة إليهم لغة عالمية تحقق لهم المساواة مع نظرائهم الأوروبيين. وكان العلم الذي يمارسونه، أي الطب والصيدلة والكيمياء، أمرًا قد حُرِم منه رؤساؤهم الأتراك، مع أن أولئك الرؤساء،
بحكم سيطرتهم على الموارد المالية، كانوا المسيطرين على المهن الطبية.”
― Khaled Fahmy, السعي للعدالة: الطب والفقه والسياسة في مصر الحديثة

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