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    Edward W. Said
    “فلم يكن القصد من وصف شخص ما بأنه شرقي، على نحو ما دأب عليه المستشرقون، ينحصر في الإشارة إلى أن لغة هذا الشخص وجغرافية بلاده وتاريخه من موضوعات الدراسة العلمية، بل كثيراً ما كان ذلك التعبير يرمي إلى الحط من شأن الشخص ويعني أنه ينتمي إلى سلالة دنيا من البشر، وإن كان ذلك لاينفي أن كلمة "الشرق" كانت ترتبط في أذهان بعض المبدعين مثل نيرفال وسيجالين ارتباطاً رائعاً وخلاباً بالغرابة، والبهاء، والغموض، والوعد، ولكن الكلمة كانت بمثابة تعميم تاريخي مغرق في شموله.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism
    tags: orient, orientalism, orientalist
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    Julius Evola
    “But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.”
    ― Julius Evola
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    Edward W. Said
    “The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism
    tags: islam, middle-east, orientalism, west
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    Octave Mirbeau
    “After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins, playing with those pretty Nepalese knives 'which dissipate one's dreams'.”
    ― Octave Mirbeau
    tags: decadence, decadent, exoticism, orientalism
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  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
    wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”
    ― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
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  • #7
    “Silver hidden in the gold,
    Young man hidden in the old,
    Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
    Bring king and ring before sunrise!
    -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest”
    ― Margaret Lovett, The Great and Terrible Quest
    tags: king, poetry, quest, riddle
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Under in the Mere
    tags: journey, quest, question
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    Loren Eiseley
    “It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”
    ― Loren Eiseley
    tags: quest, vision, wilderness
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    Donita K. Paul
    “Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”
    ― Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest
    tags: book, books, donita, donita-k-paul, dragon, dragonquest, liabrary, paul, quest
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    Jill Bolte Taylor
    “I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.”
    ― Jill Bolte Taylor
    tags: open, quest, universe
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  • #13
    “I believe home is where the heart can be open and loving with a sense of security. It must not be a place of fear.”
    ― Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem, Questing Home: A Safe Place for My Holy Grail: Personal Growth Through Travel
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  • #14
    “Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.”
    ― Constantine E. Scaros, Reflections on a Simple Twist of Fate: Literature, Art and Parkinson's Disease
    tags: epiphany, inspirational, philosophical, quest
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    Tahir Shah
    “On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.”
    ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
    tags: journey, jungle, quest, team, trust
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    Tahir Shah
    “There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.”
    ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
    tags: adventure, luck, quest, search
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    Tahir Shah
    “Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”
    ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
    tags: adventure, obsession, quest, search
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    Steve Maraboli
    “On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: action, inspirational, life, motivational, quest, quote, rationality, religion, spirituality, success
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    Tahir Shah
    “The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
    tags: expedition, journey, quest, rule
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    Tahir Shah
    “There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
    tags: journey, quest
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    Tahir Shah
    “The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.”
    ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
    tags: adventure, doubt, quest, search, success
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  • #22
    “Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.”
    ― Linda Austin
    tags: career, counsel, quest, reference
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  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    Norton Juster
    “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: journey, philosophy, quest
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  • #25
    Sarah Dessen
    “I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
    "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example."
    "Why not?"
    "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff."
    "Like ride bikes?" I said.
    "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..."
    "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?"
    "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: along-for-the-ride, auden, boys, eli, firecrackers, girls, quest, sarah-desson
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