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“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“اعتبر الفاتحون العرب العلم من الصناعات والمهن، فكرهوا الاشتغال به "لمقتضى أحوال السذاجة والبداوة". وكانوا ينعتون العربي الذي يمتهن التعليم أو يتبحر في اللغة من أنّه يتعاطى بصناعات الموالي ! لعمري، متى كان العلم أو التعليم سُبّة وعييا؟! يقول ابن خلدون: "وأما العرب، الذين أدركوا هذه الحضارة وسوقها، وخرجوا إليها من البداوة، فشغلتهم الرئاسة في الدولة وحمايتها وأُولي سياستها ، مع ما يلحقهم من الأنفة عن انتحال العلم حينئذ، بما صار من جملة الصنائع، والرؤساء أبدا يستنكفون عن الصنائع والمهن وما يجرّ إليها، ودفعوا ذلك إلى من قام به من العجم والمولّدِين" .”
― ابن المقفع الكاتب والمترجم والمصلح
― ابن المقفع الكاتب والمترجم والمصلح
“ما فائدة أن يكون الخليفة صالحاً في شخصه إذا كان ضعيفاً لا عصبية كافية له تمكنه من الغلبة على الناس وفرض أمره بالقوة.”
― منطق ابن خلدون
― منطق ابن خلدون
“It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.
It is psychotic to go.
It is psychotic to look.
Psychotic to live in a different country forever.
Psychotic to lose something forever.
The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.
Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.
It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever.
Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.”
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It is psychotic to go.
It is psychotic to look.
Psychotic to live in a different country forever.
Psychotic to lose something forever.
The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.
Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.
It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever.
Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.”
―
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