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“If you have any doubt about that, sir, perhaps you should consult the history books written by your own British historians, or maybe you can pay a visit to your British Museum, which finds Arab and Middle East history interesting and significant enough to boast its treasures to your people here.”
― The Gardener of Baghdad
― The Gardener of Baghdad
“You lose your secrets when you let people get too close.”
― Words on Bathroom Walls
― Words on Bathroom Walls
“It was as if, without realizing it, I had opened a door I had never known existed. That’s exactly what it felt like. From that moment on, I read relentlessly, one book after another. It was as if a love of reading had been sleeping somewhere deep inside me all this time, and then it suddenly sprang to life.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“1 نزلت عليه الحرية كالوحي فملأه يقينا لا سبيل إلى الشك فيه , أنه حر يفعل ما يشاء كيف شاء حين شاء , غير مذعن لقوة أو خاضع لعلة , لسبب خارجي أو باعث باطني. حل مسألة الإرادة في ثانية واحدة , وأنقذها بحماس فائق من وطأة العلل , وداخله شعور بالسعادة والتفوق عجيب , فألقى نظرة ازدراء على الخلق الذين يضربون في جوانب السبل مسيرين مصفدين لا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا , إذا ساروا لم يملكوا أن يقفوا , وإذا وقفوا لم يملكوا أن يسيروا ...
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إن انقضاء الليل والنهار يُنسي , ومن ينغمر في الدنيا يذهل على نفسه , وللحياة جلبة تبتلع همسات الضمير .”
― همس الجنون
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إن انقضاء الليل والنهار يُنسي , ومن ينغمر في الدنيا يذهل على نفسه , وللحياة جلبة تبتلع همسات الضمير .”
― همس الجنون
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