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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“لمّا كنت ساذجاً بما يكفى، للذهاب فى رحلة للبحث عن الحقيقة، فقد قمت-عبثاً- بجولة حول العديد من الطرق و المذاهب. كنت بدأت بترسيخ قدمى فى الشكوكيّة حين خامرتنى فكرة الإسترشاد بالشعر كملاذ أخير: من يدرى؟ لعلّى أحقق فيه كسباً. لعله يكشف لى من وراء اعتباطيته عن بعض التجليات الحاسمة. ملاذ وهمى. كان الشعر قد ذهب أبعد منّى فى النفى و الإنكار. لقد جعلنى أخسر حتى شكوكى.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
― Henry Miller

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
― Paul Auster, Oracle Night

“أحب القراءة فقط كما أحببت الذهاب لمشاهدة الأفلام، أو تصفح الجرائد و المجلات، لم أكن أفعل هذه الأشياء لأكتسب نوعاً من المميزات، أو للحصول على نتيجة ما، أو ربما لأفكر فى نفسى كشخص فوق العادى، أو أكثر معرفة، أو أكثر عمقاً من الآخرين، أستطيع حتى أن أقول إن كونى دودة كتب علمنى نوعاً من التواضع”
― أورهان باموق, The New Life

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano...”
― Yannis Ritsos, The Fourth Dimension

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.”
― David Lynch

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“إذا كان الناس يفضلون, في بعض الأوقات, تذكّر الأيام الجميلة من الماضي, فإنّ الأيام القاسية يصبح لها جمالٌ من نوع خاص, حتى الصعوبات التي عاشوها تتحول في الذاكرة إلى بطولة غامضة, ولا يصدقون أنهم احتملوا ذلك كله واستمروا بعد ذلك !”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, النهايات

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“إن الامة التى تحسن صناعة الموت وتعرف كيف تموت الموتة الشريفة،يهب الله لها الحياة العزيزة فى الدنيا والنعيم الخالد فى الآخرة،وما الوهن الذى اذلنا إلا حب الدنيا وكراهية الموت، فأعدوا انفسكم لعمل عظيم.. واحرصوا على الموت توهب لكم الحياة واعلموا أن الموت لابدَّ منه، وأنه لا يكون إلا مرةً واحدةً، فإن جعلتموها في سبيل الله كان ذلك ربحَ الدنيا وثوابَ الآخرة.”
― حسن البنا

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
― Frank Sinatra

“There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you grow up. Steer clear of the tryant lovers, and try to locate the ones who are looking for a man as a friend, not because they are feeling empty themselves but because they enjoy making you full too. And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“مرعى
ــــ
اكتست الأرض
بوشاح
رقيق
من الخفة

كعروس
شابة لا تزال
تمنح الإبن
مدهوشة
ذلك الخجل
المبتسم
لأم”
― جوزيبى أونجاريتّى, الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“صرخة
ــــ
حل المساء
و كنت أستريح فوق العشب الرتيب
و بدأت أنعم
بهذه الرغبة
التى بلا نهاية:
صرخة داكنة، ذات أجنحة
يحملها الضوء بين طياته
و هو يموت”
― جوزيبى أونجاريتّى

“الولد
الذى فى وريده
أنهار إنسانياتٍ عدة
هرب
من الإطارات
حيث كان يزخرف
زمانه الضائع الجميل
و فى اللحظة المتسقة
يضيع
ظله
بين الظلال الأخرى”
― جوزيبى أونجاريتّى

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”
― Wole Soyinka