Hala A. Abbas

“The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost...”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“إن المطلوب هو حداثة جديدة تتبنى العلم والتكنولوجيا ولا تضرب بالقيم أو بالغائية الإنسانية عرض الحائط ، حداثة تحيى العقل ولا تميت القلب ، تنمى وجودنا المادى ولا تنكر الأبعاد الروحية لهذا الوجود ، تعيش الحاضر دون أن تنكر التراث”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر