Mariam

“لا لم تعد ابنتي لزيارتي أبدا. وأنا لا ألومها، فلماذا تعود؟ لقد أنقذتني أصلا ونطقت بالكلمات الشافية. كنت أستعيد صوابي وأتسلق ببطء جدران هاويتي الداخلية. وأصارع! ... كانت معركة أخوضها بمفردي.”
― Amin Maalouf, Ports of Call

“ومع ذلك، فقد كنت هنا! مررت من هنا! بالرغم مما قد يقع، لا تنسني!”
― Milan Kundera

“When from out of error’s darkness
With a word both sure and ardent
I had drawn the fallen soul,
And you, filled with deepest torment,
Cursed the vice that had ensnared you
And so doing wrung your hands;
When, punishing with recollection
Forgetful conscience, you then told
The tale of all that went before me,
And suddenly you hid your face
In trembling hands and, filled with horror,
Filled with shame, dissolved in tears,
Indignant as you were, and shaken…
Etc., etc., etc.”
― Nikolay A. Nekrasov

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with the bomb, revolution and the destruction of the balance of nature. He usurps more and more of nature and takes it under his control. The vital question for him, therefore, is how this world which he has usurped can be human- ized.36 His main problem is no longer the universal finitude which he experiences in solidarity with all other creatures, but the humanity of his own world.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology