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I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together.

Humans were made for love and beauty; their vulnerability was what made them feel on the deepest level and what could also crush their will to live.

Talk less. Smile more.

وفي الأندلس أيضا كان الفكر مزدهرا، وكانت ثماره كتبا تنسخ بأناة ويتداولها رجال العلم من الصين الى المغرب الأقصى. ثم كان نضوب الفكر والقلم. وأتُّخذ من السُنّة حصن لاذ به الناس دفاعا عن أنفسهم من الفرنجة، أفكارهم وعاداتهم. ولم تُنجب غرناطة سوى مقلدين بلا موهبة ولا جرأة.

She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.

And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control until he heard her cry his name and they fell together off the edge of the world.

وكان كثيرا ما يردد في مرارة أنه في عصور الاسلام الاولى لم تكن تحصى في المشرق كتب الفلسفة أو الرياضيات أو الطب أو الفلك، وأن الشعراء انفسهم كانوا أكثر عددا وتجديدا في الأسلوب والمعنى.

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett

It's the accursed inventions of the age that are ruining everything - the artillery, the muskets, the cannons, and above all the printing press, that scourge brought from Germany. No more manuscripts, no more books. Printing is ruining bookselling. The end of the world is upon us.