Here are some of my favorite quotes in English, French and Arabic
"Beirut is the Eizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, tacky, falling apart, aging and forever drama laden. She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is." Rabih Alameddine - An unnecessary woman
Tout enfant, j'ai senti dans mon cœur deux sentiments contradictoires : l'horreur de la vie et l'extase de la vie.
Baudelaire - Mon coeur mis à nu
On ne sait rien de soi. On croit s'habituer a être soi, c'est le contraire. Plus les années passent et moins on comprend qui est cette personne au nom de laquelle on dit et fait les choses.
Amélie Nothomb - les catilinaires
Je suis de ceux qui aiment et non de ceux qui haissent.
Antigone de Sophocles
Si tu ne deviens pas hypocrite, lui disait-il, peut être tu seras un homme.
Stendhal - La chartreuse de Parme
"Avant-guerre, elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvaient banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot." Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
"Dans un monde sans visage, à quoi s'accrocher, contre qui se battre?" Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
"Albert, seul, pleura. Il y aurait à écrire une histoire des larmes dans la vie d'Albert. Celles-ci, désepérées, naviguaient de la tristesse à la terreur selon qu'il considérait sa vie ou son avenir." Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.” The ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman
Change of self is loss of self, according to the traditional Greek attitude. Categorized as madness, it is held to be an unquestionable evil. Sokrates does not agree: I must say this story is not true, the story that a nonlover should be gratified in preference to a lover on the grounds that the latter is mad while the former is sane. Now, if it were a simple fact that madness is evil, the story would be fine. But the fact is, the greatest of good things come to us through madness when it is conferred as a gift of the gods.
Anne Carson - Eros the bittersweet
Games for Gustav from Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
"Game 5
The order comes at gunpoint: you and your family and all the people around you must strip naked.
You are with your seventy-two-year-old father, your sixty-eight-year-old mother, your spouse, your sister, a cousin, and your three children, aged fifteen, twelve, and eight.
After you have finished undressing, where do you look?"
"Savez-vous ce que disent les arbres lorsque la hache entre dans la forêt? Regardez! Le manche est l'un des nôtres!" (Un mur de Belfast)
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were/behind you, like the winter that has just gone by./For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter/that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. [From the Sonnets to Orpheus, RILKE]
"Man ceased to be an ape and overcame the ape the day the first book was publiShed. The ape had never forgotten this humiliation: just try to give him a book, and he will immediately spoil it, soil it, and tear it to pieces."
(From Yevgeny Zamyatin's unpublished preface to a book)
J'ai quanrante-quatre ans. Si le temps mesure quelque chose chez un être humain, ce sont les blessures. Je pense n'en avoir eu ni plus ni moins que n'importe qui: beaucoup, donc.
Amélie Nothomb - La nostalgie heureuse
“God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.”
Amélie Nothomb - The character of rain
"On n’a rien inventé de mieux que la bêtise pour se croire intelligent."
Amélie Nothomb - Métaphysique des tubes
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
— The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"En grattant les oripeaux de l'adulte, on re récupérait qu'un enfant? Les années n'ajoutaient donc que des poils, de la barbe, des soucis, des querelles, des tentations, des cicatrices, de la fatigue, de la concupiscence, rien d'autre?" [L'evangile selon Pilate] E.E. Schmitt
What we call species are various degenerations of the same type. Isidore Saint-Hilaire, Vie d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1847)
"Mes premiers bruits de guerre.... Qui tire?.... C'est le Liban qui tire sur le Liban." Sorj Chalandon - Le quatrième mur
"J'étais venu au monde parce qu'une femme avait aimé un home. Elle était repartie sans avoir eu le temps de m' aimer. J' étais une bouche en trop, je suis devenu un coeur en plus." Sorj Chalandon - Le quatrième mur
"Beirut is the Eizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, tacky, falling apart, aging and forever drama laden. She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is." Rabih Alameddine - An unnecessary woman
Tout enfant, j'ai senti dans mon cœur deux sentiments contradictoires : l'horreur de la vie et l'extase de la vie.
Baudelaire - Mon coeur mis à nu
On ne sait rien de soi. On croit s'habituer a être soi, c'est le contraire. Plus les années passent et moins on comprend qui est cette personne au nom de laquelle on dit et fait les choses.
Amélie Nothomb - les catilinaires
Je suis de ceux qui aiment et non de ceux qui haissent.
Antigone de Sophocles
Si tu ne deviens pas hypocrite, lui disait-il, peut être tu seras un homme.
Stendhal - La chartreuse de Parme
"Avant-guerre, elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvaient banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot." Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
"Dans un monde sans visage, à quoi s'accrocher, contre qui se battre?" Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
"Albert, seul, pleura. Il y aurait à écrire une histoire des larmes dans la vie d'Albert. Celles-ci, désepérées, naviguaient de la tristesse à la terreur selon qu'il considérait sa vie ou son avenir." Au revoir là-haut - Pierre Lemaitre
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.” The ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman
Change of self is loss of self, according to the traditional Greek attitude. Categorized as madness, it is held to be an unquestionable evil. Sokrates does not agree: I must say this story is not true, the story that a nonlover should be gratified in preference to a lover on the grounds that the latter is mad while the former is sane. Now, if it were a simple fact that madness is evil, the story would be fine. But the fact is, the greatest of good things come to us through madness when it is conferred as a gift of the gods.
Anne Carson - Eros the bittersweet
"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, thoug...h not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books. Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hour glass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature gives me life, and life kills me.
Well, life kills everyone.
But that's a morose subject. Tonight I feel alive - blue hair and red wine alive."
An unnecessary woman by Rabih AlameddineGames for Gustav from Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
"Game 5
The order comes at gunpoint: you and your family and all the people around you must strip naked.
You are with your seventy-two-year-old father, your sixty-eight-year-old mother, your spouse, your sister, a cousin, and your three children, aged fifteen, twelve, and eight.
After you have finished undressing, where do you look?"
"Savez-vous ce que disent les arbres lorsque la hache entre dans la forêt? Regardez! Le manche est l'un des nôtres!" (Un mur de Belfast)
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were/behind you, like the winter that has just gone by./For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter/that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. [From the Sonnets to Orpheus, RILKE]
"Man ceased to be an ape and overcame the ape the day the first book was publiShed. The ape had never forgotten this humiliation: just try to give him a book, and he will immediately spoil it, soil it, and tear it to pieces."
(From Yevgeny Zamyatin's unpublished preface to a book)
J'ai quanrante-quatre ans. Si le temps mesure quelque chose chez un être humain, ce sont les blessures. Je pense n'en avoir eu ni plus ni moins que n'importe qui: beaucoup, donc.
Amélie Nothomb - La nostalgie heureuse
“God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.”
Amélie Nothomb - The character of rain
"On n’a rien inventé de mieux que la bêtise pour se croire intelligent."
Amélie Nothomb - Métaphysique des tubes
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
— The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Naturally, having conquered hunger (that is, algebraically speaking, having achieved the total of bodily welfare), the United State directed its attack against the second ruler of the world, against love. At last this element also was c...onquered, that is, organized and put into a mathematical formula. It is already three hundred years since our great historic Lex Sexualis was promulgated: "A Number may obtain a license to use any other Number as a sexual product." . The rest is only a matter of technique.
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
What we call species are various degenerations of the same type. Isidore Saint-Hilaire, Vie d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1847)
"Mes premiers bruits de guerre.... Qui tire?.... C'est le Liban qui tire sur le Liban." Sorj Chalandon - Le quatrième mur
"J'étais venu au monde parce qu'une femme avait aimé un home. Elle était repartie sans avoir eu le temps de m' aimer. J' étais une bouche en trop, je suis devenu un coeur en plus." Sorj Chalandon - Le quatrième mur
و المذيعون خِراف .. و الإذاعات خُرافة .. و عقول المستنيرين صناديق صِرافة .. كيف تأتينا النظافة؟ أحمد مطر
“I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -” Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?” Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
" Jignore ce qu'est la réussite d'une histoire d'amour, mais je sais ceci: il n'y a pas d'échec amoureux. C'est une contradiction dans les termes. Eprouver l'amour est déjà un tel triomphe que l'on pourrait se demander pourquoi l'on veut davantage." ~ Amélie Nothomb
"C'est épuisant, l'hédonisme." L'égoïste romantique - Frédéric Beigbeder
"Mon problème c' est que je tombe amoureux dès que je suis bourré." L' égoiste romantique - Frédéric Beigbeder
"The universe, is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" J. B. S. Haldane
"La douleur vous refaçonne toujours d'une curieuse manière." La liste de mes envies - Grégoire Delacourt
"Il aime quand elle lève les yeux d'un livre pour lui sourire." Grégoire Delacourt - La liste de mes envies
"Il y a beaucoup de choses que les hommes ne comprennent pas. N’importe quelle jeune fille sera plus attirée par un malheureux que par un veinard, parce que chacune est tentée par un amour actif. Les hommes sont occupés. Pour eux l’amour est secondaire ; une petite conversation, un tour dans le jardin et rien d’autre. T’aimer cela veut dire pour moi rêver comment je te guérirai ton angoisse, comment je te suivrai au bout du monde, tu montes au sommet et je monte avec toi, tu roules très bas et je roule avec toi."
Ivanov d’Anton Tchekhov (le monologue de Sacha)
"The okapi is an odd animal. It has the striped legs of a zebra, the body of a large, reddish-brown antelope, and the head and sloping shoulders of a giraffe, to which it is in fact related. Indeed, once you know the relationship, you can s...ee it: an okapi looks like a short-necked giraffe, with only the striped legs and big, round ears appearing incongruous. It's a peaceable cud-chewer, shy and solitary, that was discovered in the rainforests of the Congo by Europeans only in 1900, though of course it was known to locals before that." Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel See More
C'est si total une presence, c'est si radical l'absence. Simone de Beauvoir
To eat a pear is akin to ... kissing "Beatrice and Virgil" by Yann Martel
"C'est une aventurière sans scrupule et quelque peu criminelle qui ne vivait que des sommes extorquées aux auteurs de ses jours" Isabelle by André Gide
I’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
but if I wake...
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.
Shane Koyczan
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
but if I wake...
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.
Shane Koyczan
"Scientists often study the past as obsessively as historians because few other professions depend so acutely on it. Every experiment is a conversation with a prior experiment, every new theory a refutation of the old." The emperor of all maladies - Siddharta mukherjee
ما كان يمكنني أن أرى جسدي إلا واسترجع تعبيره لحظة اقتربنا الأولى وهو يسبح بحمد الله. ضحكت: الذي لا يحمد على مكروه سواه؟ يضمني إليه عاريةً حارةً، يقبلني وأنسى أن أضحك.” سلوى النعيمي, The Proof of the Honey
الفراش عندي للنوم والمرض، للولادة والموت. السرير للذة. السرير من السر. الرغبة هي السر. اللذة هي السر. الجنس هو السر. الجنس هو سر الأسرار. لذا يبقى في رأسي مرتبطاً بالسرير حتى ولو فعلتها في المصعد. سلوى النعيمي, The Proof of the Honey برهان-العسل
زواج المتعة؟.يبدو لي التناقض اساسيا بين المضاف والمضاف اليه.الاولى تغلق النفس والافق,والثانية تفتحهما
في حياتي كنت مدمنة حكايات وأسرة. كل رجل حكاية، وكل حكاية سرير.” “الحب للروح والشهوة للجسد. أنا لا روح لي...
عندما كنت صغيرة لم أجد روحي. عندما كبرت لم أتعب نفسي في البحث عنها...
كنت أعرف أني جسدي فقط. لا أملك شيئاً آخر. جسدي هو ذكائي ووعي وثقافتي.
من يشته جسدي يحبني. من يحب جسدي يشتهيني. هذا هو الحب الوحيد الذي أعرفه، والباقي أدبيات.
كنت أعرف أني جسدي فقط. لا أملك شيئاً آخر. جسدي هو ذكائي ووعي وثقافتي.
من يشته جسدي يحبني. من يحب جسدي يشتهيني. هذا هو الحب الوحيد الذي أعرفه، والباقي أدبيات.
تعودت أن أصاب بفقدان الذاكرة الارادي سلاحا في حياتي مع الاخرين.انسى ما اريد واتذكر ما اريد.رياضة تمرنت عليها سنوات طويلة الى ان تحولت الى تصرف غريزي لا يحتاج الى تفكير سلوى النعيمي, The Proof of the Honey
“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]” Barbara W. Tuchman
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]” Barbara W. Tuchman
“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence” Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”
Gautama Buddha
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”
Gautama Buddha
“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.
[Sutra of 42 Sections]” Gautama Buddha
[Sutra of 42 Sections]” Gautama Buddha
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
هذا رجل يستحق براءة اختراع في كل ما يفعله في امراة أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
ينهار صمودها . تهاتفه . لا يرد . تبكي و يضحك الحب أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
حين تخجل المرأة , تفوح عطرا جميلا لا يخطئة أنف رجل .. أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
سيظل يخطيء في حقها ثم يمن عليها بالغفران عن ذنب لن تعرف أبداً ماهو ..لكنها تطلب أن يسامحها عليه
هكذا هن النساء إن عشقن أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
هكذا هن النساء إن عشقن أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
الحب هو ذكاء المسافة. ألّا تقترب كثيراً فتُلغي اللهفة، ولا تبتعد طويلًا فتُنسى. ألّا تضع حطبك دفعةً واحدةً في موقد من تُحب. أن تُبقيه مشتعلًا بتحريكك الحطب ليس أكثر، دون أن يلمح الآخر يدك المحرّكة لمشاعره ومسار قدره. أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك
“L'homme prend et rejette; la femme se donne, et on ne reprend pas, ou on reprend mal, ce qu'on a une fois donné” Henri De Montherlant
“Je suis une âme en peine, une femme de trente ans, nerveuse, malheureuse, qui n'a pas les dérivatifs des hommes: passades, voyages, affaire, vanité, ambition.” Henri De Montherlant
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” Anaïs Nin
“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.” José Martí
"كنا نتحدث عن أحمد مجد، والقصة الرائجة عن زوجته السابقة بخصوص علاقة محتملة بينها وبين مهندس معماري معروف في العاصمة، فقد كنت اعبر عن إستهجاني للطريقة التي تظهر بها في أماكن عمومية، عندما ثارت بهية ورحت تدافع عن حق هذه المرأة في أن تعيش حياتها كما تشاء. تساءلت، هل يعني ذلك أن الخيانة الزوجية هي أيضاً فضيلة من الفضائل. أجابت زوجتي نعم، هي أم الفضائل. لأنها تقود إلى لحظة صادقة، بينما الوفاء المزعوم ليس سوى أكذوبة فجة، وعندما سكت لأني أعرف أنها لا تؤمن بما تقول، بل تقوله فقط لتشحذ عدوانيتي اضافت متوترة:
- حتى إزاء الله فإن المرء يكون أكثر صفاء وهو يعيش هذه اللحظة الصادقة!"
محمد الأشعري - القوس والفراشة
- حتى إزاء الله فإن المرء يكون أكثر صفاء وهو يعيش هذه اللحظة الصادقة!"
محمد الأشعري - القوس والفراشة
كلنا ننهزم أمام الموت ، لكن لاشيء أفظع من الهزيمة أمام الحياة محمد الأشعري, القوس والفراشة
قادتني الكتابة إلى الإحساس بأن الشياطين هم مرايا الأنبياء, وأن الخير لكي يكون خيراً, لا بد أن يتضمن أيضاً جذوة الشر. محمد الأشعري, القوس والفراشة
الحب هو فقط أن تكون قرب امرأة في الوقت المناسب محمد الأشعري, القوس والفراشة
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
"خفق الضحى، لكأنه كائن ذكوري يلهث من فيضان النشوة والإشتهاء ، وهذا الخفق هو هبوب الهواء الدائم على ذلك المجرى. حلقت فوق جسد زينب طيور جاءت من قيعان الأودية، ومن السهول البعيدة، حطت على الشجر المجاور، بخفر وخشوع، وبعرفان ليد الخالق التي سوت هذه القامة. صدح عند المصب غناء أنثوي جارف، هي راعية مولعة برشيد الذي مات.
غنت فطرب الطير.
شدت زينب براحتيها على النهدين، كي لا يفضحهما الطير، أو تحسباً لأي عين تتلصص على هذا التورد والرمان."
أحمد علي الزين - صحبة الطير
ثلاثية عبد الجليل الغزال
غنت فطرب الطير.
شدت زينب براحتيها على النهدين، كي لا يفضحهما الطير، أو تحسباً لأي عين تتلصص على هذا التورد والرمان."
أحمد علي الزين - صحبة الطير
ثلاثية عبد الجليل الغزال
نحن نكبر أمام العالم ، كي يكون لنا الحقّ أن نضعف أمام شخص واحد . "الأسود يليق بكِ "
ضبطت نفسي متلبسة بحبك مثل لصة صغيرة تسرق رغيف حنان ...
غادة السمان
غادة السمان
"..لا تلم الرتيلاء
لأنها تنسج من بيتها مكيدة
لعلّها تدافع عن نفسها في زمن شعاره
إمّا أنْ تأكل أو أنْ تُؤكل.."غادة السمان
لأنها تنسج من بيتها مكيدة
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إمّا أنْ تأكل أو أنْ تُؤكل.."غادة السمان
القِطّةُ السوداءُ
والكُتُبُ الحَكيمهْ
أمرانِ يجتَمِعانِ في امرأَةٍ كليمهْ
أخَذَتْ هوى قلْبي
الى كَلِماتِها
كالحربِ تأخُذْ من ضحاياها الغنيمهْ
للهِ من حَرْبٍ
أَتوقُ لِوَقْعِها...
ما اشتاقَتِ الأفواهُ
للقُبَلِ الحميمهْ
ناجي المخ ، الحقوق محفوظة©
والكُتُبُ الحَكيمهْ
أمرانِ يجتَمِعانِ في امرأَةٍ كليمهْ
أخَذَتْ هوى قلْبي
الى كَلِماتِها
كالحربِ تأخُذْ من ضحاياها الغنيمهْ
للهِ من حَرْبٍ
أَتوقُ لِوَقْعِها...
ما اشتاقَتِ الأفواهُ
للقُبَلِ الحميمهْ
ناجي المخ ، الحقوق محفوظة©
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