“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“لا تكتبي لي جوابا ...لا تكترثي ، لا تقولي شيئا . إنني أعود إليك مثلما يعود اليتيم إلى ملجأه الوحيد ، و سأظل أعود : أعطيكِ رأسي المبتل لتجففيه بعد أن اختار الشقي أن يسير تحت المزاريب .”
― رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان
― رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان
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