Rida Hariri

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..”
― José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

“ليسَ لي وطنٌ أو صديق
والهواءُ الذي يتسلل تحت الثيابْ
ينحني خائفاً أن يلامسَ قلبي”
― محمد علي شمس الدين, أناديك يا ملكي وحبيبي

“قلت لشجرة اللوز:
حدثيني عن الله ,
فأزهرت شجرة اللوز”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis