Amal El Rhazi > Amal's Quotes

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
― Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Berthold Auerbach

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?”
― Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

“إن امتيازنا الوحيد هو أننا شعب بإمكان أي مواطن فيه أن يكفّر جميع المواطنين، ويحجز الجنة التي عرضها السماوات والارض.. له وحده”
― أحمد مطر

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet