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“إن علاقة الأسياد بالعبيد.كعلاقة الاستعمار بالمستعمرات,كعلاقة أي فرد يريد استغلال الفرد الآخر,كعلاقة الرجل بالمرأة.”
― نوال السعداوي, الأنثى هي الأصل

“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers.”
― Milan Kundera

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
― Hannah Arendt

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,�� and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.��
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“الحب الذي تغسله العيون بدموعها يظل طاهرًا وجميلاً وخالدًا”
― جبران خليل جبران

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”
― Khalil Gibran

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits

“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
― Tom Waits

“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!”
― Tom Waits

“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”
― Tom Waits

“I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way”
― Tom Waits

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
― Tom Waits

“I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.”
― Tom Waits

“God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!”
― Tom Waits, Blood Money

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”
― Tom Waits

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“My mistakes are my life.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot

I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.”
― Tom Waits

“We are all just monkeys with money and guns.”
― tom waits

“يا ناس يا عبط يا عشمانين..
ف فرصه تانيه للقا..
بطلوا اوهام بقي..
وكفايه أحلام واسمعوا..
عيشوا بذمه و ودعوا..
كل حاجة بتعملوها..
وكل حد بتشوفوه..
وكل كلمه بتقولوها..
وكل لحن بتسمعوه..
عيشوا المشاهد... كل مشهد..
زي مايكون الأخير..
واشبعوا ساعة الوداع ��.
واحضنوا الحاجه بـضمير..
دا اللي فاضل مش كتير ��.
اللي فاضل..
مش كتير”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, ويسترن يونيون فرع الهرم: ديوان بالعامية المصرية

“عشان فيكى منى فى طبع الجنان ..
عشان فيا منك فى طبع الحنان ..
عشان احنا نسخة ..
عشان احنا مُسخة ..
عشان فيه تشابه بشكل ابن وسخة ..
عشان فى ف دروبنا علامات كزالك ..
وعشان فيه ف دروبنا علامات كذلك ..
برغم ان مفهاش ولا درب سالك ..
وعشان احنا أصلًا سوا من زمان ..
بحبك ..
لذلك ..
وأكتر ..
كمان ..
عشان مش ضرورى ..
يكون فيه عشان”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, ويسترن يونيون فرع الهرم: ديوان بالعامية المصرية

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man