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“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
― Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

“إن المدن تنتصب فوق أعمدة روحية، كالمرايا العملاقة، وهي تعكس قلوب سكانها، فإذا أظلمت هذه القلوب وفقدت إيمانها فإنها ستفقد بريقها وبهاءها. لقد حدث ذلك لمدن كثيرة وهو يحدث دائما.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“مات من الضحك وفارق الحياة
مع إنها كانت نكتة مش عاجباه !”
― وليد طاهر

“The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.”
― J.M. Barrie

“مَا أُبَالِي عَلَى أَيِّ حَالٍ أَصْبَحْتُ ، عَلَى مَا أُحِبُّ أَوْ عَلَى مَا أَكْرَهُ ، وَذَلِكَ لأَنِّي لا أَدْرِي الْخَيْرَ فِيمَا أُحِبُّ أَوْ فِيمَا أَكْرَهُ”
― عمر بن الخطاب

“خير الجمال هو الجمال المحتمل”
― تميم البرغوثي, في القدس

“من اهتدي بهدي ضميره وحده فلن يضل أبداً”
― محمد كامل حسين, قرية ظالمة

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“المصادفات في عمر معين تفقد سحرها، لا تعود تُدهش، وتصبح مبتذلة”
― ميلان كونديرا, الجهل

“And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance