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“الكثير من الأشياء الجميلة، أو الأشياء التي يتمناها الإنسان، تأتي متأخرة”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, تقاسيم الليل والنهار

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“كانت ليلى تطلب منى ألا أنظر إليها عندما تنام ، كانت تعتقد أن تقاطيع وجهها تكون صادقه عندما تفقد التحكم بها ،وهى لا تريد أن أعرف شعورها الحقيقى تجاهى...تخاف أن أصبح مغروراً
لم يكن إسمها ليلى ....كنت أدعوها
ليلى لأنها كانت تدعونى قيسا.

‫#‏شيىء_لا_يذهب‬...........‫”
― غسان كنفاني, موت سرير رقم 12

“أن تكون مترجماً مهماً أفضل من أن تكون روائياً سيئاً”
― صالح علماني

“تمنيت عمراً أُحبُّكِ فيهِ
وَكَمْ راود القلب عِشْقُ البِحار

ولكن حُبُّكِ دربٌ طويلٌ
وأيَّام عمرى ليالٍ قصار

إذا صرت في الأفق أطلال نجمٍ
فيكفي بأنك .. أنْتِ المدار”
― فاروق جويدة, مختارات من شعر فاروق جويدة: قصائد حب

“كل دموع الأرض لا تستطيع أن تحمل زورقاً صغيراً يتسع لأبوين يبحثان عن طفلهما المفقود”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله.”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“كثرة الأحزان ياعمي جعلت الناس مفاجيع أفراح”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“أيها الصديق الذي عبرت حصاري كنافذة... كم أرى الأرض من خلالك خضراء!”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أقل من عدو أكثر من صديق: السيرة الطائرة

“At last my heart was too full.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like...

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"

And a little later you added: "You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage

“One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

But the prince made no answer.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince