“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."
[On Water]”
Source: The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
“Human beings are basically huge monkeys that walked upright, but they can be pretty full of themselves.”
Source: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“People are only rational on the surface.”
Source: Christine
“Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“He leaned forward suddenly, so that for an instant the strong, bearded face was clear; the voice softened, and there was an aching sadness in it. "Only the creatures of the earth take from one another, boy. All creatures, but men more than any. Life they take, and liberty, and all that another man may have--sometimes through greed, sometimes through stupidity, but never by any volition but their own. Beware your own race, Bran Davies--they are the only ones who will ever harm you, in the end.”
Source: The Grey King
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
Source: The Vintner's Luck
“If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.”
Source: Satin Island
“Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.”
Source: A Daughter of Zion
“I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."
-p150, NOTES TO SELF”
Source: Notes to Self
“اختلاف الأماكن من بلد إلى بلد اّخر لا يعنى كثيراً,و إنما اختلاف الناس هو الذى يعنى أكثر,لأننا نعاشر الناس و لا نعاشر الجدران.و انت لا تسافر حينما تغير مكانك و لكنك تكون قد سافرت حينما توسع من ثقافتك و تثرى من عاطفتك و تجدد من روحك.”
Source: يوميات نص الليل