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“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”
― The Light That Failed
― The Light That Failed
“لا , لا ٔاريد ٔان يفهمني بشري ٕاذا كان فهمه ٕاياي ضرباً من العبودية المعنوية . وما ٔاكثر الذين يتوهمون ٔانهم يفهموننا لأنهم وجدوا في بعض مظاهرنا شئياً شبيهاً بما اختبروه مرة في حياتهم . وليتهم يكتفون بادعائهم ادراك ٔاسرارنا – تلك الأسرار التي نحن ذواتنا لا ندركها – ولكنهم يصموننا بعلامات و أرقام ثم يضعوننا علىٕ رف من رفوف ٔافكارهم واعتقاداتهم مثلما يفعل الصيدلي بقناني الدوية والمساحيق !”
― Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah
― Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah
“He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory.”
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
“It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to you and say: See…. This is why I asked you never to kiss me.”
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