Maged Essam

“أمر غريب. رجل يتعرف على امرأة. ولزمن طويل يكونان شخصاً واحداً. مزجا أفكارهما، جسديهما، آمالهما، رائحتيهما، حياتيهما. إنهما واحد. ثم إنهما بعد فترة غريبان. وليسا واحداً بعد الآن. كأن ذلك لم يحدث أبداً، وكما لو أن الواحد ينظر في المرآة فيرى شخصاً غريباً بدلاً من انعكاس صورته.”
― وجيه غالي, Beer in the Snooker Club

“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs