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“ﻣﺎﺑﻘﻴﺘﺶ ﺑﺴﺘﻐﺮﺏ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﻠﻲ ﻳﺮﻭﺡ
ﺍﻟﺨﺒﻄﺔ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺍﻷﻭﻟﻲ ﻣﺶ ﻓﺎﺭﻗﺔ
ﻻ ﺍﻟﺤﺰﻥ ﻋﻠﻢ ﻓﻴﺎ ﺯﻱ ﺯﻣﺎﻥ
ﻭﻻ ﺻﺎﺭ ﺑﻴﻐﺮﻳﻨﻲ ﺍﻟﻔﺮﺡ-أﻥ ﺟﺎﺯ-
ﺇﻋﺰﻓﻠﻲ ﺣﺎﺟﺔ ﺃﻥ ﺷﺎﻟﻠﻪ ﺗﺒﻘﻲ ﻧﺸﺎﺯ
ﺃﻧﺎ ﻋﺎﻭﺯﺓ ﺩﻭﺷﺔ
ﺗﻐﻄﻲ ﻋﻠﻲ ﺧﻮﻓﻲ !”
― مي رضوان, الشنطة البمبي

“مش عايزة ورد ..
الورد فيه تغريبة تغري بالحنين ..
وأنا غربتي أوسع كتيير منه
والحب مش إعلان مؤقت بالحياة ف بوكيه
ويومين يكون دبلان..!
.
مش عاوزة أغنية ..
كل الأغاني كدابين
.
مش عاوزة جاوابات توسِّع المسافات كمان
.
مش عاوزة وعد بشيء جديد
ولاشيك أمل .. من غير رصيـد
.
مش عايزة ف اللحظا دي غير ..
غير إحساس ضروري بالأمـــان”
― مي رضوان, الشنطة البمبي

“والقُرب بيسيب ع القلوب
تجاعيد
وسط الروتين
وبين فراغات الزعل
بتزيد
فسيب مشاعرك
في الفطام
هتطيب..
وحب لكن
حب وانت غريب
القرب
أصعب.. حُكم إعدام ف التاريخ
والصورة أجمل
! طول ما هية بعيد”
― مي رضوان, الشنطة البمبي

“الأنصاص لما بتلاقي
ممكن يطلع حد صحيح
وساعات بعد الجَبر .. الناتج
يفضل برضه كسور فردية
فانا مش طالبة أكتر من إنك
.. تقبل بس القسمة عليا”
― مي رضوان, الشنطة البمبي

“أَبْحَثُ عَنْ أُغنِيَةٍ تَصِفُ قَلْبًا فَارِغًا لِلتَوّ
تَشْرَحُ اكْتِمالَ فُقدَانِ الثِّقَةِ
تَرصُدُ الدِّفءَ الـمُتَسَلِّلَ مِنْ الذَّاكِرَةِ
حِينَمَا يَصطَدِمُ بالضَّيَاعِ

أُريدُ أَنْ أَغْسِلَ ذَاكِرَتِي
وَأَترُكُهَا تَجِفُّ فِي شَمسِ العُزلَةِ الـمُخِيفَةِ
أُريدُ أَنْ أُوَاجِهَ عُزْلَتِي وَلَا أَحتَرِقُ

سَأَخْلَعُ رَأْسِي
قَلِيلا
وَأَتَمَشَّى
بِرَقَبَةٍ مَقْطُوعَةٍ
ونَازِفَة
.......
2011م

...”
― غادة خليفة, تسكب جمالها دون طائل

“إن سر النجاح ليس في كون البستان كبيراً والعمال كثيرون، بل في أنني أحب هذا العمل، أتفهم؟ أحبه ربما أكثر من نفسي. انظر إليَّ، إنني أصنع كل شئ بنفسي. إنني أعمل من الصباح إلى المساء. التطعيم كله أجربه بنفسي، والتقليم بنفسي، والشتل بنفسي، كل شئ بنفسي. وعندما يساعدني أحد أشعر بالغيرة وأُستثار إلى حد الخشونة. السر كله في الحب، أي في العين المُدبرة اليقظة، وفي الأيدي المُدبرة، وأيضاً في ذلك الإحساس الذي يراودك عندما تذهب ضيفاً إلى أحدٍ ما لمدة ساعة، فتشعر وأنت هناك بأن قلبك في غير مكانه، وأنت نفسك على غير طبيعتك؛ إذ تخشى أن يحدث شئ للبستان.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.'
'Why?'
'Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here ofr. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us. And yet [...] I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. [...] We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. ... The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“What looks still to our crude eyes is a wild and dynamic dance.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Zarathustra, the first to recognize that the optimist is just as degenerate as the pessimist though perhaps more detrimental says: “Good men never speak the truth.  The Good preach of false shores and false security.  You were born and bred in the lies of the good.  Through the good everything has become false and twisted down to the very roots”.  Fortunately the world is not built solely to serve good natured herd animals their little happiness  ; to desire everybody to become a “good man”, “a herd animal”, blue-eyed, benevolent, “a beautiful soul”— or, as Herbert Spencer wished—altruistic, would mean robbing existence of its great character, to castrate mankind and reduce humanity to a sort of wretched Chinadom. And this some have tried to do!  It is precisely this that men have called morality. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

“Every walk in the forest is like taking a shower in oxygen.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World

“Consider it this way: We are the descendants of frightened people. Early humans whose amygdala reacted to potential dangers and produced a strong fear response were most likely to behave in cautious ways and be protective of their children, which meant they were more likely to survive and pass their genes (and frightened amygdala) on to future generations.”
― Catherine M. Pittman, Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

“We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages of a book. The medieval bishop Isaac of Syria described how, whenever he read to himself, “as in a dream, I enter a state when my sense and thoughts are concentrated. Then, when with prolonging of this silence the turmoil of my memories is stilled in my heart, ceaseless waves of joy are sent me by inner thoughts, beyond expectation suddenly arising to delight my heart.” Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing, or the mind. Readers disengaged their attention from the outward flow of passing stimuli in order to engage it more deeply with an inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions. That was—and is—the essence of the unique mental process of deep reading.”
― Nicholas Carr, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn’t feel like that at all. We don’t feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“In a sense, those critics who claim we are not working a fifteen-hour week because we have chosen consumerism over leisure are not entirely off the mark. They just got the mechanics wrong. We're not working harder because we're spending all our time manufacturing PlayStations and serving each other sushi. Industry is being increasingly robotized, and the real service sector remains flat at roughly 20 percent of overall employment. Instead, it is because we have invented a bizarre sadomasochistic dialectic whereby we feel that pain in the workplace is the only possible justification for our furtive consumer pleasures, and, at the same time, the fact that our jobs thus come to eat up more and more of our waking existence means that we do not have the luxury of--as Kathi Weeks has so concisely put it--"a life," and that, in turns means that furtive consumer pleasures are the only ones we have time to afford.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory