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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“في داخلي شُرْفَةٌ
لا يَمُرُّ بها أَحَدٌ للتَّحيَّة.”
― محمود درويش

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To love makes one solitary.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“بت أعتقد أن الناس أوغاد لا خلاق لهم وأنه من الخير لهم أن يعترفوا بذلك وأن يقيموا حياتهم علي دعامة من هذا الإعتراف وهكذا تكون المشكلة الأخلاقية الجديدة هي :
كيف نكفل الصالح العام والسعادة البشرية في مجتمع من الأوغاد؟”
― نجيب محفوظ, المرايا

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando