Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppres… - Hermann Hesse

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter

Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.

إنهم يعرفون كم غراماً من البارود تحتاج لقتل إنسان لكنهم لا يغرفون كيف تصلي إلى الله, لا يعرفون حتى كيف تكون سعيداً و لو لمدة ساعه من الرضا