“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
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“أليس طريفاً وغريباً أننا عندما نصل إلى مكان جديد يعيش لحظته الجديدة نروح نبحث عن عتيقنا فيه؟ هل للغرباء جديد؟ أم أنهم يدورون في دنياهم بسلالٍ ملأوها ببقع الماضي، البقع تتساقط لكن اليد لا تسقط سلّتها.”
― رأيت رام الله
― رأيت رام الله
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله.”
― عائد إلى حيفا
― عائد إلى حيفا
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