Rudy Garcias

“المدينة تصير عالمًا عندما تحبُ أحد سكانها
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والقاهرة مدينة باهتة الألوان
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مليئة بالتناقضات والمصاعب والعيوب”
― محمد فرحات

“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Steal

“The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.”
― Franz Kafka

“Sometimes the principal emotion of the person arrested is relief and even happiness! This is another aspect of human nature. It happened before the Revolution too: the Yekaterinodar schoolteacher Serdyukova, involved in the case of Aleksandr Ulyanov, felt only relief when she was arrested. But this feeling was a thousand times stronger during epidemics of arrests when all around you they were hauling in people like yourself and still had not come for you; for some reason they were taking their time. After all, that kind of exhaustion, that kind of suffering, is worse than any kind of arrest, and not only for a person of limited courage.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956