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“A person is courageous so long as he has no need for courage, but he collapses when the issue becomes real, and he is forced to understand courage as an act of “surrender,” a detachment from human involvement, and is content himself with being a spectator rather than a participant in life.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, ما تبقى لكم

“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will’d, we die?”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“...suddenly [I] began to cry for no reason at all—or perhaps for everything for which I had no name.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, ما تبقى لكم