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“We all know, however, that the enormous weight of tradition, habit, and custom that occupies the greater part of our brain bears down pitilessly on the more brilliant and innovative ideas of which the remaining part is capable, and although it is true that, in some cases, this weight can balance the excesses and extravagances of the imagination that would lead us God knows where were they given free rein, it is equally true that it often has a way of subtly submitting what we believed to be our free will to unconscious tropisms, like a plant that does not know why it will always have to lean toward the side from which the light comes.”
― José Saramago, The Double

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“عارف إنت مشكلتك إيه ؟.. إنك مش عارف إنت عاوز إيه .. حتى كلمة بحبك مش خارجة منك.. بتاخف منها يا برج الدلو.. بتخاف حد يشوف مشاعرك.. شوف بقالنا قد إيه مع بعض وعمرك ما قلت اللي جواك.. مع إنه طافح في عينيك.. بتخاف حتى من نفسك .. عاوزنى أفضل قريبة.. بس مش قريبة أوي”
― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس

“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper