“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust     “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust     “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” ― Marcel Proust     “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust     “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can…

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” ― Mao Zedong     “To read too many books is harmful.” ― Mao Zedong     “Women hold up half the sky.” ― Mao Zedong     “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.” ― Mao Zedong     “Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.” ― Mao Zedong     “An…

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.” -Mahmoud Darwish     “I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.” -Mahmoud Darwish       “If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.” -Mahmoud Darwish     “The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.” -Mahmoud Darwish     “My love, I fear the silence of your hands.” -Mahmoud Darwish      …