Basima

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

“الناس أصبحوا يعشقون الهزل بصورة مخيفة!!”
― خيري شلبي, الدساس

“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

“nothing happens accidentally. everything happens through necessity, so it is of little use to complain when fate comes knocking at the door.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World