ما أكثر الذين جاءوا هذه الدنيا فى أعقاب الحماقات. - Naguib Mahfouz

نال ما يشتهى من الحب وفق ما يشتهى ولكنه خسر الاحترام إلى الأبد.

Why do people laugh, dance in triumph, feel recklessly secure in positions of power? Why do they not remember the true place in the scheme of things and their inevitable end?

Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.