Muntaser Ibrahim

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“خصوصية المأساة عند جيل خاض تجربة التمرد ، هى أنه مهما كان مصير كل واحد من أبنائه ، سواء سار فى سكة السلامة ، طريق التوبة و الإذعان لقوة الأمر الواقع ، و حتى إعلان الكفر بكل قيم التمرد القديم ، أو سار فى طريق الندامة ، الإنهيار ، إعتزال الحياة ، المرض النفسى ، فإنه شاء أم أبى لا يعود أبداً نفس الشخص الذى قبل أن تبتليه غواية التمرد ، لقد مسه الحلم مرة ، و ستبقى تلاحقه دوماً ذكرى الخطيئة الجميلة ، لحظة حرية ، خفة ، لا تكاد تحتمل لفرط جمالها ، تبقى مؤرقة كالضمير ، و ملهمة ككل لحظة مفعمة بالحياة ،و الفاعلية مؤلمة”
― أروى صالح

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down.

Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche