Bara

“هذي بلادي عُروقي بالمُنى نَبضَتْ
وخاطري، والهوى المَنقوشُ في كَبِدي
هي الحبيبَةُ عُمري كلّه فلقدْ
رهنْتُ أمسي، يومي دونها، وغَدِي‬”
― أيمن العتوم, نبوءات الجائعين

“Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism; and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves