"She was smiling her best smile for me. I thought she looked very beautiful, but I didn’t know how to tell her."
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
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الشك بناء، الشكوك هي الموصلة للحقائق، من لم يشك لم ينظر ولم يبصر ومن لم يبصر بات في العمى والضلال.
Doubt is a process of construction. Doubts are the leads to The Truth. He who did not doubt did not look and see, and he who did not see stayed in the blindness and delusion.
"- Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali.
"Peace and quiet is the music dear to us; we have a hard life and even on the occasions when we have tried to shake free from the cares of our daily life we still cannot raise ourselves up to something so lofty and remote from our routine lives as Music."
- Franz Kafka
Book Review: Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Maybe I spent so much time reading I kinda was lost in the story, but I felt good every time I read some of it..
Witty, smart, and very paradoxical in its situations. Vonnegut tells stories like no other, great in his own ways!
And most importantly, FULL of humanity and humanism.. Yes I’d recommend that, and I might read it again too..
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"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land."
- Walt Whitman
Book Review: The Time Keeper, Mitch Albom
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hmmm.. Another Mitch Albom.. This time, a bit more futuristic and a bit more Sci-fi..
Great novel nonetheless.. Simple and can be finished with easily.. I like how it goes from one story to the other and connects in a very good way.. And once it connects, it gets a lot more interesting..
Has a great moral value into it.. Loved the message of appreciation of time and life as a gift to be given and lived fully. We all tend to get caught up in life as we go into our daily grind.. This tells you to look a bit more into its details and stories..
More like a 3.5 to me.. :)
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"Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will."
- Mitch Albom, “The Time Keeper”
"It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity in the name of love."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five.
"being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement.
Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
Who really wants to stay home and be right when you can don your armor, spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world? True you might get lost along the way, get stranded in a swamp, have a scare at the edge of a cliff, thieves might steal your gold, brigands might imprison you in a cave, sorcerers might turn you into a toad-but what of that? To fuck up is to find adventure."
- Kathryn Schulz, from “Being Wrong.”
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“واتّسعت روحي لتشملَكِ! فما كنتِ تتكلّمين ولا تضحكين ولا تخطُرين في غُرفتكِ..
ولكن في داخلِ نفسي..!” ~ الرافعي
And my soul has expanded so that it includes you. So you weren’t talking or laughing or coming to my mind while you were in your room, but inside my own self..
"- Mustafa Sadiq Al-Raf’ie
"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
if you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
- Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
