Ahmed Rabee

“النجاح لا يُغتفر مثلما يقول الإنجليز، ولا بد أن ينالك بعض العقاب”
― عمر طاهر, من علم عبد الناصر شرب السجائر؟

“Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing”
― Sokrates

“I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. – Thamus, on the invention of hieroglyphics”
― Keith Houston, The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time