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“إن حب الوحدة داء، أشبه بالمخدر تود منه فرارا ولا تستطيع عنه فكاكا، تبغضه لنفسك وأنت تعاني الحنين إليه.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“بت أعتقد أن الناس أوغاد لا خلاق لهم وأنه من الخير لهم أن يعترفوا بذلك وأن يقيموا حياتهم علي دعامة من هذا الإعتراف وهكذا تكون المشكلة الأخلاقية الجديدة هي :
كيف نكفل الصالح العام والسعادة البشرية في مجتمع من الأوغاد؟”
― نجيب محفوظ, المرايا

“ويا للسخرية ! لقد كنا بالأمس نعمل، وأملنا مؤكد أننا سننقذ الشعب كله، فإذا كل منا اليوم غير قادر أن ينقذ نفسه.”
― يوسف إدريس, العسكري الأسود

“لماذا أراكِ على كل شيءٍ
كأنّكِ في الأرضِ كل البشر
كأنّكِ دربٌ بغير انتهاءٍ
وأنّي خُلِقتُ لهذا السّفر
إذا كنتُ أهربُ منكِ إليكِ
فقولي بربّكِ أينَ المفر؟”
― فاروق جويدة, شيء سيبقى بيننا

“تبقى العلامة الوحيدة التي احاول تخليص كتبي منها هي لصاقة السعر التي يضيفها باعة الكتب الخبثاء على الاغلفة الخلفية.تنزع هذه المساحات البيضاء الجرباء بمنتهى الصعوبة ، مخلفة جروحا جذامية واثار مادة لزجة يلتصق عليها الغبار و الزغب بمرور الوقت، لتجعلني اتمنى ان ينال مخترع تلك اللصاقات جحيما صمغيا يختص به”
― البيرت مانغويل

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“كيف أرجع إلى ما كنت قبلاً ؟ نعم عشت من غير حب وعشت سعيداً ولكنها سعادة الأعمى الذي لم ير الجمال ولكنك فتحت عين الأعمى وجعلته يبصر وينبهر ..فهل تحسبه إذا أرجعته إلى ظلامه الأول مستطيعاً أن يجد سعادته الأولى ؟”
― توفيق الحكيم

“نَحْنُ أدْرَى وَقد سألْنَا بِنَجْدٍ...أطَوِيلٌ طَرِيقُنَا أمْ يَطُولُ
وَكَثيرٌ مِنَ السّؤالِ اشْتِيَاقٌ...وَكَثِيرٌ مِنْ رَدّهِ تَعْليلُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“يا عبد ليس بيني وبينك بين..

أنا أقرب إليك من نفسك..

أنا أقرب إليك من نطقك..

فانظر إلي فإني أحب أن أنظر إليك..”
― مصطفى محمود, رأيت الله

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Vanity is my favourite sin.”
― Al Pacino

“Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.”
― Tiffany Madison

“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.”
― René Descartes

“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable”
― René Descartes

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov