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“لكل امرئ الحق في الرحيل، وعلى وطنه أن يقنعه بالبقاء، مهما ادعى رجال السياسة العظام عكس ذلك.
من السهل قول ذلك حين يكون المرء مليارديرًا، أما حين لا تستطيع في بلدك إيجاد وظيفة، و لا تلقى الرعاية الصحية، ولا إيجاد المسكن، ولا الاستفادة من التعليم، ولا الانتخاب بحرية، ولا التعبير عن الرأي بل ولا حتى السير في الشوارع على هواك! فعلى وطنك أن يفي إزاءك ببعض التعهدات، أن تعتبر فيه مواطنًا عن حق، وألا تخضع فيه لقمع أو لتمييز أو لأي شكل من أشكال الحرمان بغير وجه حق، ومن واجب وطنك وقياداته أن يضمنوا لك ذلك.
الوطن الذي بوسعك أن تعيش فيه مرفوع الرأس. تعطيه كل ما لديك. حتى حياتك. أما الوطن الذي تضطر فيه للعيش مطأطئ الرأس فلا تعطيه شيئًا. فالنبل يستدعي العظمة. واللامبالاة تستدعي اللامبالاة. والازدراء يستدعي الازدراء. ذلك هو ميثاق الأحرار. ولا أعترفُ بميثاق آخر.”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of
Men into my hands
And wrote my will across the
Sky and stars
To earn you freedom, the seven
Pillared worthy house,
That your eyes might be
Shining for me
When we came

Death seemed my servant on the
Road, 'til we were near
And saw you waiting:
When you smiled and in sorrowful
Envy he outran me
And took you apart:
Into his quietness

Love, the way-weary, groped to your body,
Our brief wage
Ours for the moment
Before Earth's soft hand explored your shape
And the blind
Worms grew fat upon
Your substance

Men prayed me that I set our work,
The inviolate house,
As a memory of you
But for fit monument I shattered it,
Unfinished: and now
The little things creep out to patch
Themselves hovels
In the marred shadow
Of your gift.”
― T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom