Mohamed Hussien

“The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and of the universe.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“فقبل الشعر والسرد والأسطورة كان الفارق الأبرز بين الإنسان والحيوان "الضحك" ، كانت النكتة ، وكان الإفيه . وبمرور الوقت تحولت النكتة إلى ذكرى ، والذكرى بعثت الحنين ، ومنه جاءت التراجيديا . قدست اللغة رغم أنها لم تكن سوى لعبة .”
― أحمد ناجي, سبع (7) دروس مستقاة من أحمد مكى

“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...

Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments