Ibrahim Migdady

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“ولأن الناس عادة لا يحبون الموت كثيرا فلا بد أن يفكروا بأمر آخر.”
― غسان كنفاني, أرض البرتقال الحزين

“It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time—pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“The consciousness of my own baseness has done nothing to reconcile me to the baseness of others. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. I have no desire for that slimy brotherhood.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke