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“ما من شيء يفلت من قدره ، هذه هي الحقيقة الكبرى”
― José Saramago

“It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates”
― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

“أعرِفُ قهوتي , و قهوةَ أمي و قهوةُ أصدقائيّ .. أعرِفُهَا من بعيد و أعرِفُ الفوارِق بينها
لا قهوةَ تشبهُ قهوةً أُخرى , ليسَ هُناكَ مذاقُ إسمُهُ مذاقُ القهوة , فالقهوةُ ليستّ مفهوماً
و لا مادةٌ واحِدة و ليست مُطلقاً .. لِكُلِ شخصٍ قهوتهُ الخاصة " إلى حدِ أنني أقيسُ درجةَ ذوقِ الشخص
و أناقتهُ النفسية بمذاقِ قهوته .”
― محمود درويش

“What is a book?
A book seems, like a picture, to be a living being; and
yet if we ask it something, it does not answer. Then we
see that it is dead.In order to make the book into a
living thing, he invented—happily for us—the Platonic
dialogue, which forestalls the reader’s doubts
and questions.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse