Lebanese living in Beirut, Lebanon. Looking for friendship. I have a more than competent grasp of the English language and am a native Arabic and Lebanese speaker. I took French in school but greatly lack in practice. Recently started learning Italian and finished the A1 level. Passion is movies.

A couple of poems that I connect with:

"My Life" by Rainer Maria Rilke:

"My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rhythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors..."

"The Infinite" by Giacomo Leopardi

"This solitary hill has always been dear to me 
And this hedge, which prevents me from seeing most of 
The endless horizon. 
But when I sit and gaze, I imagine, in my thoughts 
Endless spaces beyond the hedge, 
An all encompassing silence and a deeply profound quiet, 
To the point that my heart is almost overwhelmed. 
And when I hear the wind rustling through the trees 
I compare its voice to the infinite silence. 
And eternity occurs to me, and all the ages past, 
And the present time, and its sound. 
Amidst this immensity my thought drowns: 
And to founder in this sea is sweet to me."

Taking questions and general discussions only for now

Paused: French/Italian Language practice

Cinema, Football, Poetry, Art

Morphine, Poncho Sanchez, Stan Getz, Beck, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Eisbrecher, Oomph, MTH, Thelonius Monk, Rammstein, etc

Wings of Desire, Dans La Ville Blanche, Eternity and a Day, All Tarkovsky movies (The Mirror especially), Bunuel movies as well (rhyme intended)

Continuum, Community, House of Cards, Twin Peaks, Mr. Robot, Broadchurch, etc..

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Nadja by Andre Breton
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason trilogy by Jean Paul Sartre
The Damned by Joris Karl Husymans
Hell by Henri Matisse
Welcome to the Universe by Tyson, Gott and Strauss
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Sanchiro by Natsume Soseki
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto - Terence