Malakalshannaq

“How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?"
"There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don't feel like they're mine. They're not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It's like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then when you open them up, there's a smaller doll inside, and you keep opening hollow dolls until eventually you get to the smallest one, and it's solid all the way through. But with me, I don't think there is one that is solid. They just keep getting smaller.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“1 نزلت عليه الحرية كالوحي فملأه يقينا لا سبيل إلى الشك فيه , أنه حر يفعل ما يشاء كيف شاء حين شاء , غير مذعن لقوة أو خاضع لعلة , لسبب خارجي أو باعث باطني. حل مسألة الإرادة في ثانية واحدة , وأنقذها بحماس فائق من وطأة العلل , وداخله شعور بالسعادة والتفوق عجيب , فألقى نظرة ازدراء على الخلق الذين يضربون في جوانب السبل مسيرين مصفدين لا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا , إذا ساروا لم يملكوا أن يقفوا , وإذا وقفوا لم يملكوا أن يسيروا ...

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إن انقضاء الليل والنهار يُنسي , ومن ينغمر في الدنيا يذهل على نفسه , وللحياة جلبة تبتلع همسات الضمير .”
― نجيب محفوظ, همس الجنون