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“ربما كان في وسع الإرادة القوية أن تتيح لنا أكثر من مستقبل واحد، ولكننا لن يكون لنا - مهما أوتينا من إرادة - إلا ماضٍ واحد لا مفر منه ولا مهرب”
― نجيب محفوظ

“أسوأ ما يمكن أن يحدث لك .. هو أن تُنتزع من طفولتك .. أن تستيقظ ذات صباح لتفاجأ أن كل خلايا البراءة في داخلك قد ماتت .. قد دمرت”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, قمر على سمرقند

“يبدو لى أن للقلب بصرا إذا اشتد تفرسه غطى على بصر الأعين فينقلب الإنسان أعمى و هو بصير”
― Naguib Mahfouz, السراب

“إذا أردت أن تصمد للحياة فلا تأخذها على أنها مأساة”
― توفيق الحكيم

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“عندما تتكاثر المصائب يمحو بعضها بعضاً ..
وتحل بك سعادة جنونية غريبة المذاق ..
وتستطيع أن تضحك من قلب لم يعد يعرف الخوف !”
― نجيب محفوظ

“الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“إنه يحملق في الماضي على استكراه ونفور شديد ولكنه وجد المقاومة لا تجدي، كأنما ذاك الماضي دمل يود لو يتجاهله على حين لا تمسك يده عن جسه من آنٍ لآخر. ثم إن هناك أمورًا لا يمكن أن تنسى.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“It’s just like what they say about lightening; It’s safest to stand where it has already struck.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Then, however, Mayer thought it fitting to remind her of the most important thing:

'Between the heart and the tongue lies an abyss,' he said. "Remember that. Thoughts must be concealed, particularly since you were born, to your great misfortune, a woman. Think so that they think you are not thinking. Behave in such a way that you mislead others. We all must do this, but women more so. Talmudists know about the strength of women, but they fear it .... But we don't ... because we ourselves are like women. We survive by hiding. We play the fools, pretending to be people we are not. We come home, and then we take off our masks. But we bear the burden of silence: masa duma.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Words are not nobilities that want their genealogical trees we traced. Words are merchants, swift and useful, now here, now there.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became 'geniuses' (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all pos­sessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to con­struct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says "I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

“Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. No matter where we go, our love will stretch out to hold us, and that makes me feel like … like everything will be okay.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“لا شيء قادر على التأثير في القارئ أكثر من الكتاب الأول الذي يمس قلبه حقاً. إذ أن صدى الكلمات التى نظن بأننا نسيناها يرافقنا طوال الحياة، ويشيد في ذاكرتنا منزلاً سنعود إليه عاجلاً أم آجلاً. لا يهم حشد الكتب الأخرى التى سوف نقرؤها، ولا عدد العوالم التى سوف نكتشفها، ولا حتى مقدار الأمور التى سوف نتعلمها ثم ننساها.”
― كارلوس زافون

“Grief isn’t something to be gotten through. It has no life of its own like that. It’s just plain and simply there. It’s one of the things which tells us we are humans.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The death of cancer is inevitable. It’s a question, not of if but of when, and when will be determined by what we do next. Do it now or do it later. Many are resigned to later.”
― Vincent T. DeVita Jr., The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There