Mostafa Samir

“La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]”
― Vincent van Gogh

“My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
― Jorge Luis Borges