Lotfia

“Please, when I come home, don't forget the "soul"... and I don't mean "sweet sayings"... I mean the truth, the sharing of our inmost thoughts, good or bad... lost or comforting. That is the soul. I think it. The soul, is I think, a human being who speaks with the pressure of death at his head. That's how I'd phrase it. The self in trouble... not just the self without love (as us) but the self as it will always be (with gun at its head finally)... To live and know it is only for a moment... that is to know "the soul"... and it increases closeness and despair and happiness...”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“هناك بضعُ كلمات لا بُدَّ منها
ليستمرّ الكون، كلٌّ منها عالمٌ كاملُ الصّفات
كُلٌّ منها كوكب”
― سركون بولص, Sargon Boulus, عظمة أخرى لكلب القبيلة

“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much passion and so much resentment... that we are repressed? By what spiral did we come to affirm that sex is negated? What led us to show, ostentatiously, that sex is something we hide, to say it is something we silence?

...I do not maintain that prohibition of sex is a ruse; but it is a ruse to make prohibition into the basic and constitutive element from which one would be able to write the history of what has been said concerning sex starting from the modern epoch.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
― Michael Faudet