Mostafa Samir

“La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]”
― Vincent van Gogh

“My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“يا أهل النفاق !! تلك هي أرضكم .. وذلك هو غرسكم .. ما فعلت سوى أن طفت بها وعرضت على سبيل العينة بعض ما بها .. فإن رأيتموه قبيحاً مشوها، فلا تلوموني بل لوموا أنفسكم .. لوموا الأصل ولا تلوموا المرآة .
أيها المنافقون !! هذه قصتكم، ومن كان منكم بلا نفاق فليرجمني بحجر.”
― يوسف السباعي, أرض النفاق

“Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm