Ahmad Lutfi

“حيــاتنــا ليســت شيئــاً...وإنــهــا تبــلغ ذروة قيمتهــا لو قـدمــت مــن أجــل سعــادة آلالاف غــيــرنــا....”
― غسان كنفاني

“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.”
― Carl Panzram, Panzram: A Journal of Murder

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950