Rida Hariri

“Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.”
― Marcel Proust

“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

“تجيئينَ بعد انطفائي
تجيئينَ في لحظةٍ فائتهْ
فلا توقظيني
وقولي لهم: ماتَ في الانتظارْ.”
― محمد علي شمس الدين, أناديك يا ملكي وحبيبي

“...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