Yaman

“I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

“كيف يفرض إنسان سلطته على إنسان آخر يا ونستون؟
فكر ونستون ثم قال: بأن يجعله يعاني.”
― جورج أورويل, 1984

“أظهرت البيروقراطية العربية قدرة هائلة في تليين العقلنة وتكييفها بإعطائها مضموناً ملموساً عبر الزبونية والمحسوبية والشروة والنهب. وفي أحسن الأحوال يقدم لك البيروقراطي العربي خطماته "العمومية" مقابل خدمات أخرى إذا كنت "تمتلك" أنت الآخر قطاعاً آخر من قطاعات الدولة أو من القطاع الخاص.
وهكذا تصبح القوانين مساطر رخوة، مطاطة، تقص وفق المقاس الشخصي، كما تتحول الملكية العمومية إلى ملكية خصوصية وتصبح الرشوة والنهب والزبونية ممارسات "مشروعة".”
― محمد سبيلا, للسياسة، بالسياسة - في التشريح السياسي

“You must not be angry with me for having been so sad yesterday; I was very happy, very content, but in my very best moments I am always for some reason sad. As for my crying, that means nothing. I don’t know myself why I am always crying. I feel ill and irritable; my sensations are due to illness. The pale cloudless sky, the sunset, the evening stillness – all that – I don’t know – but I was somehow in the mood yesterday to take a dreary and miserable view of everything, so that my heart was to fall any did the relief of tears. But why am I writing all this to you? It is hard to make all that clear to one’s own heart and still harder to convey it to another. But you, perhaps, will understand me. Sadness and laughter both at once! How kind you are really. You looked into my eyes yesterday as though to read in them what I was feeling and were delighted with my rapture.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk