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“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
― David Foster Wallace

“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.”
― Frederick Buechner

“فكن مثل الساقيه باكيا مبتل العينين ،حتى تنبت الخضره فى رحاب روحك ..”
― أحمد بهجت

“It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.”
― Amy Greene, Bloodroot

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“الكتابه غربه ،غربة عن الصفقه الأجتماعيه المعتاده ،غربة عن المألوف والنمط والقالب الجاهز ،غربة عن طرق الحب الشائع وعن طرق الخصومة الشائعه ،غربة عن الطبيعه الايمانيه للحزب السياسى وغربة عن فكره المبايعة
الشاعر يجاهد ليفلت من اللغه السائده المستعملة الى لغة تقول نفسها للمرة الاولى ،ويجاهد ليفلت من اظلاف القبيله ،من تحيذاتها ومحرماتها ،فإذا نجح فى الأفلات وصار حرا ،صار غريبا ،أقصد في نفس الوقت
كأن الشاعر يكون غريبا بمقدار ما يكون حرا
والممسوس بالشعر او بالفن عموما إذ تحتشد فى روحة هذه المغريات ،لن يداويه منها أحد ،حتي الوطن .
انه يتشبث بطريقته الخاصة فى استقبال العالم وطريقته الخاصه في إرسالة ،فمن الحتمي أن يستخف به اصحاب الوصفات الجاهزه وأهل العاده والمألوف ،يقولون انه هوائى ومتقلب ولا يعتمد عليه ،الى آخر هذه النعوت المرصوصة كالمخللات على رفوفهم ،اولئك الذين لا يعرفون القلق ،اولئك الذين يتعاملون مع الحياه بسهوله لا تليق”
― مريد البرغوثي ولدت هناك ولدت هنا

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
― Rumi

“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”
― William James