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“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a dog from Hell

“ليت أسماء تعرف أن أباها صعد

لم يمت

هل يموت الذي كان يحيا

كأن الحياة أبد

وكأن الشراب نفد

و كأن البنات الجميلات يمشين فوق الزبد

عاش منتصباً، بينما

ينحني القلب يبحث عما فقد.

ليت "أسماء"

تعرف أن أباها الذي

حفظ الحب والأصدقاء تصاويره

وهو يضحك

وهو يفكر

وهو يفتش عما يقيم الأود .

ليت "أسماء" تعرف أن البنات الجميلات

خبأنه بين أوراقهن

وعلمنه أن يسير

ولا يلتقي بأحد .”
― أمل دنقل

“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.
‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida