Before there can be change there must be discontent.
He refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an existing thing. Instead, he seemed to believe that it was something accidentally left over from bygone...
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will y...
Immediately when you arrive in Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails outside the towns; and within, even in busy places like the m...
After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.
When I was young … Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having...
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really.
Tunner’s presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.
What a wonderful thing to be an American! he said impetuously.Yes, said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would be like not to be an American. It seemed somehow the natura...
A man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.
Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...
Tangier is more New York than New York. ... Then you must see how alike the two places are. The life revolves wholly about the making of money. Practically everyone is dishonest. In New York you have...
How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a...
In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know, Amar's father had told him.But suppose the world changes? Amar had thought. Then what would you know...
His behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing.… Everything’s getting gray, and it’ll be grayer.
Пожалуй, огромное различие состояло в том, что Запад оказывался гуманнее: он предусматривал для своих пациентов анестезию, в то время как Восток, принимая страдание как нечто само собой разумеещеся, у...
Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.
That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not re...
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