Selim Shahla

“استمراراً لظاهرة التدين الشكلي التى تنتشر هذه الأيام، أصبح معظم سائقي التاكسي يشغّلون القرآن ومع ذلك لا يُشغّلون العداد”
― جلال عامر

“Reem’s life was one of a lost past, a present she rejected, and a future that is up in the air, like a plane traveling between continents.”
― Louis Yako, Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile

“أمسك الشمس حتى أحدثك !! هكذا قالها عامر بن عبد قيس حينما أوقفه رجل ليحدّثه”
― عبد الفتاح أبو غدة, قيمة الزمن عند العلماء

“I'm not saying that the world will be reduced to expedient means and ridiculous disorder of the South American republics, - that we could maybe even return to savagery, and walk through the overgrown ruins of our civilization searching for food with a gun in our hand. No; - because such a destiny and such adventures would still presuppose a vital energy, an echo of primeval ages. As the new example and the new victims of inexorable moral laws, we shall perish by what we thought was our life-giver. Engineering will make us so Americanized, progress will create such great atrophy of everything spiritual in us, that the bloody, sacrilegious or unnatural dreams of the utopians could never compare with its positive results.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare: Intimate diaries with 30 illustrations