Quotes - Hamza (hamzareads) Showing 1-30 of 84

#1

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

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#2

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5282 likes

#4

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

tags: love, madness

2354 likes

#5

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29738 likes

#6

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers

1288 likes

#7

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3667 likes

#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151500 likes

#9

“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

tags: aphorism

724 likes

#10

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8929 likes

#11

“We only have what we give.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others

540 likes

#12

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”
― Guy de Maupassant

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#13

“In fact living is dying.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

tags: death, life

61 likes

#14

“The only certainty is death.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

tags: death

92 likes

#15

“إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب
ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء
ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس ، وثقافتهم لاتتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه ، وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

774 likes

#16

“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
― Mario Vargas-Llosa

tags: books, writing

368 likes

#17

“Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”
― José Saramago

tags: humor

216 likes

#18

“As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

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#19

“Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Jose Saramago

tags: blindness, dystopian, jose-saramago, prophetic

80 likes

#20

“We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.”
― José Saramago

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#21

“Los únicos interesados en cambiar el mundo son los pesimistas, porque los optimistas están encantados con lo que hay.”
― José Saramago

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#22

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth, identity, life, self

2570 likes

#23

“ينتهي الحب عندما نبدأ بالضحك من الأشياء التي بكينا بسببها يوماً”
― أحلام مستغانمي, فوضى الحواس

1594 likes

#24

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135543 likes

#25

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

9212 likes

#26

“لا يطهّر الروح إلا الحواسّ و لا يطهّر الحواسّ إلّا الرّوح .”
― أوسكار وايلد

tags: الجسد, الروح

55 likes

#27

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reading, science

942 likes

#28