Menna Rouby

“if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go all the way.. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. Go all the way.. It could mean not eating for three or four days.. It could mean freezing on a park bench.. It could mean jail, derision, mockery, isolation.. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test for endurance, of how much you really want to do it.. And you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.. if you are going to try, go all the way.. there’s no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. Do it, do it , do it.. all the way .. all the way.. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is ….”
― Charles Bukowski

“وقالوا: بعيدٌ، قلت حسبي بأنه
معي في زمانٍ لا يطيق محيدا
تمر علي الشمس مثل مرورها
به كل يوم يستنير جديدا
فمن ليس بيني في المسير وبينه
سوى قطع يوم، هل يكون بعيدا؟
وعلم إله الخلق يجمعنا معاً
كفى ذا التداني، ما أريد مزيدا”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف

“الرواية ثمرة وهم إنساني. وهم القدرة على فهم الآخر.”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“حين لا نهتم بجسدنا، نصير عندئذٍ ضحايا له بسهولة.”
― ميلان كونديرا, كائن لا تُحتمل خفته