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Milan Kundera
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Immanuel Kant
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Franz Kafka
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

لطيفة الزيات
“أنت تقيمين بينى و بينك الحواجز ، أنت لا تريدين أن تنطلقى ، و أن تتركى نفسك على سجيتها ، لأنك تخشين أن تتعلقى بى ، أن تفنى كيانك فى كيانى ، أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة منى ، ثم تكتشفى كيانك مدلوقا -كالقهوة- فى غرفتى .
و أنا أحبك و أريد منك أن تحبينى ، و لكنى لا أريد منك أن تفنى كيانك فى كيانى ولا فى كيان أى انسان .
ولا أريد لك أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة منى أو من أى انسان .
اريد لك كيانك الخاص المستقل ، والثقة التى تنبعث من النفس لا من الآخرين .
و إذ ذاك – عندما يتحقق لك هذا- لن يستطيع أحد أن يحطمك لا أنا ولا أى مخلوق .
إذ ذاك فقط ، تستطيعين أن تلطمى من يلطمك وتستأنفى المسير .
و إذ ذاك فقط تستطيعين أن تربطى كيانك بكيان الآخرين ، فيزدهر كيانك وينمو ويتجدد ، و إذ ذاك فقط تحققين السعادة فأنت تعيسة يا حبيبتى ، وقد حاولت ولم تستطيعى ، أن تخفى عنى تعاستك…”
لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

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