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“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“مَن يَصِل إلى اليقين إنْ تعاظمتْ لديه الشكوك؟”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“he is blind in his love
and he sees
no other beauty
save her he loves
who will cost him his life”
― Vasko Popa

“لا أحد يعلم لماذا هي مشبوهة دوماً المرأة الوحيدة
لا احد يعلم لماذا هو قديس دوماً الرجل الوحيد”
― إبراهيم الكوني, المجوس

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
― Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“Is there anything more frightening than people?”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغوص في الدنس !! ”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Arabian Nights & Days

“قال الشيخ:
- يا صديقي لا عيب فيك غير أنك تُغالي في تسليمك للعقل.
- إنه زينة الإنسان.
- من العقل أن نعرف حدود العقل.”
― نجيب محفوظ, Arabian Nights & Days

“من غيرة الحق أن لم يجعل لأحد إليه طريقاً، ولم يؤيس أحداً من الوصول إليه، وترك الخلق في مفاوز التحير يركضون، وفي بحار الظن يغرقون، فمن ظن أنه واصل فاصله، ومن ظن أنه فاصل مناه، فلا وصول ولا مهرب عنه، ولا بد منه”
― نجيب محفوظ, Arabian Nights & Days

“إذا سلمت منك نفسك فقد أديت حقها، وإذا سلم منك الخلق فقد أديت حقوقهم.”
― نجيب محفوظ, Arabian Nights & Days

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“We all give up great expectations along the way.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“No, Captain Madsen, you don't regret having had a child simply because you lose it. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“في مثل هذا العالم الذي لا تعيش فيه سوى العيون التي ترقب و تحملق، والآذان التي تتسمع و تردد، والأيدي التي تمسك و تعتقل، والأقدام التي تضرب و تركل، لا يكون هناك من غذاء سوى الدم ..!”
― فاروق خورشيد, مغامرات سيف بن ذي يزن

“أنت لا تعرف قلب الفتاة .. وكيف تعرف وهى عندك إما ابنة تطيع أو زوجة تلبي أو جارية تخضع بلا مناقشة .. إنك لا تعرف المرأة.
لم يحاول أحد منكم أن يعرف حقيقة المرأة ملأكم الغرور فأغلقتم قلوبكم وعقولكم عن كل شئ إلا عن دنيا الرجال ومنطق الرجال وأحكام الرجال -ما أتعسكم -”
― فاروق خورشيد, حديقة المُر