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“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“حينما تتوق إلى نعمه لا تعرف لها اسما ,وحينما تحزن دون أن تدري لذللك سببا , فأنت في الحق تنمو مع كل ما ينمو وترتفع إلى ذاتك الكبرى”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأجنحة المتكسرة

“Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy wife, but the woman of today is a miserable mistress. In the past she walked blindly in the light, but now she walks open-eyed in the dark. She was beautiful in her ignorance, virtuous in her simplicity, and strong in her weakness. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and heartless in her knowledge. Will the day ever come when beauty and knowledge, ingenuity and virtue, and weakness of body and strength of spirit will be united in a woman?”
― Kahlil Gibran, Broken Wings

“أريدك أن تذكرني مثلما تذكر الأم جنيناً مات في أحشائها قبل أن يرى النور.”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“حاولت أن أفقد ذاتي بين صفحات الكتب لعلني أستأنس بأخيلة الذين طواهم الدهر ، وكم جربت أن أنسى حاضري لأعود بقراءة الأسفار إلى مسارح الأجيال الغابرة ، فلم يُجْدِني كل ذلك نفعًا ، بل كنت كمن يحاول إخماد النار بالزيت ، لأنني لم أكن أرى من مواكب الأجيال سوى أشباحها السوداء ، ولا أسمع من أنغام الأمم غير الندب والنواح ، فسفر أيوب كان عندي أجمل من مزامير داود ، ومراثي أرميا كان أحب لديّ من نشيد سليمان ، ونكبة البرامكة أشد وقعًا في نفسي من عظمة العباسيين ، وقصيدة ابن زريق أكثر تأثيرًا من رباعيات الخيام ، ورواية هملت أقرب إلى قلبي من كل ما كتبه الإفرنج . كذا يُضعف القنوط بصيرتنا ، فلا نرى غير أشباحنا الرهيبة ، وهكذا يصمّ اليأس آذاننا ، فلا نسمع غير طرقات قلوبنا المضطربة .”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“أريدها لا تعرفني ولا أعرفها، لا من شيءٍ إلا لأنها تعرفني وأعرفها.. تتكلم ساكتةً وأرد عليها بسكوتي. صمتٌ ضائعٌ كالعبث ولكن له في القلبين عمل كلامٍ طويل”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart.
You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear.
Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.”
― charles Dickens, Hard Times

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“إن قلب المرأة لا يتغير مع الزمن و لا يتحول مع الفصول، قلب المرأة ينازع طويلاً و لكنه لا يموت. قلب المرأة يشابه البرية التي يتخذها الإنسان ساحة لحروبه و مذابحه، فهو يقتلع أشجارها ويحرق أعشابها ويلطخ صخورها بالدماء ويغرس تربتها بالعظام و الجماجم، ولكنها تبقى هادئة ساكنة مطمئنة ويظل فيها الربيع ربيعاً و الخريف خريفاً إلى نهاية الدهور ...”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“Love provided me with a tongue and tears.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Broken Wings

“اللوعة إذا عظمت تصير خرساء”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“أنا لا أبدل أحزان قلبي بأفراح الناس و لا أرضى أن تنقلب الدموع التي تستدرّها الكآبة من جوارحي و تصير ضحكا . أتمنى أن تبقى حياتي دمعة و ابتسامة : دمعة تطهر قلبي و تفهمني أسرار الحياة و غوامضها ، و ابتسامة تدنيني من أبناء بجدتي و تكون رمز تمجيدي الآلهة . دمعة أشارك بها منسحقي القلب ، و ابتسامة تكون عنوان فرحي بوجودي .”
― جبران خليل جبران, دمعة وابتسامة

“هو الحب ذا يستهزئ بي. ها قد جعلني سخرية وقادني حيث الآمال تعد عيوباً والأماني مذلة.”
― جبران خليل جبران, دمعة وابتسامة

“You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner