Osama Ayham

“whoever tells a story wanders through many stations in his adventures, but only pitches a tent at each, waiting for further directions, and soon feels his own heart pounding, in part out of desire, but in part also out of fear and the apprehension in his bones, yet always as a sign that the road now opens onto new adventures that he must experience precisely, in all their incalculable detail, for that is the will of the restless spirit.”
― Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers

“When all the senses are synchronized, the soul emerges.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between. But we don’t experience the beginning and the end, birth and death. We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that’s that.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain: First Edition

“But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal - yet another error, for beauty's secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”
― Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers