Osama Ayham

“The eyes of boredom, old buddy, are bigger than those of fear! When you're bored, God only knows what you might imagine!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“History is that which has happened and that which goes on happening in time. But it is also the stratified record upon which we set our feet, the ground beneath us, and the deeper the roots of our being go down into the layers that lie below and beyond the fleshly confines of our ego, yet at the same feed and condition it – so that in our moments of less precision we may speak of them in the first person and as though they were part of our flesh and blood experience – the heavier is our life with thought, the weightier is the soul of our flesh.”
― Thomas Mann , Joseph and His Brothers

“I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“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