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“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."
"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.”
― Franz Kafka

“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
― Franz Kafka

“لا يدوم كرب و في الدنيا رب”
― Mostafa Mahmoud

“إننا نختار في كل لحظة شئنا أم لم نشأ، الضعفاء منا يتركون العادة تختار لهم، والأقوياء يختارون بأنفسهم ويبتكرون لحظاتهم لحظة بلحظة ويصنعون لأنفسهم كل شيء حتى المصير.
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― Mostafa Mahmoud

“هل تعلمون ما معنى أن الله موجود؟ معناه أن العدل موجود والرحمة موجودة والمغفرة موجودة معناه أن يطمئن القلب وترتاح النفس ويسكن الفؤاد ويزول القلق فالحق لابد واصل لأصحابه لن تذهب الدموع سدى ولن يمضي الصبر بلا ثمرة ولن يكون الخير بلا مقابل ولن يمر الشر بلا رادع ولن تفلت الجريمة بلا عقاب ‬”
― Mustafa Mahmud