M. N.

“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave the world a hateful and ridiculous version of them. The most painful thing to bear is seeing a mockery made of what one loves.”
― Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“كأن شيئاً لم يكن , و كأن شيئاً لم يكن .....
جـرحٌ طـفيفٌ في ذراع الحاضر العبثي ..
والتاريخ يسخر من ضحاياه ومن أبطاله يلقي عليهم نظرة .. و يمـر”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“Men seek for seclusion in the wilderness, by the seashore, or in the mountains - a dream you have cherished only too fondly yourself. But such fancies are wholly unworthy of a philosopher, since at any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul; above all, he who possesses resources in himself, which he need only contemplate to secure immediate ease of mind - the ease that is but another word for a well-ordered spirit. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius