Osama Ayham

“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

“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

“Every man’s soul is an independent universe, his death the extinction of the universe in miniature.”
― Henrik Pontoppidan, Lykke-Per

“Sin—sin is God’s most precious gift.”
― Halldór Laxness, Independent People