Basima

“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“الفيلسوف هو إنسان لم يستطع يوما أن يتعود على العالم.و العالم يظل بالنسبة له شيئا غير قابل للتفسير، وشيئا غريبا، ملغزا”
― جوستاين غاردر, Sophie’s World

“Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan