Asma Brahim

“The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing nor ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, 'I don't like it!', 'It's boring!' It is not a point that one can argue; but it like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“يصعب على المرء أن يتخيل لماذا وكيف يصبح الإنسان عاشقاً؟”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“فيتأكد لي مع كل صباح أن فى هذه الحياة رغم كل شيء، ما يستحق الحياة”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle