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Phoebe Aster Skylake said:
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This translation was incredible and beautiful. I hope there will be reprints of Muhammad Asad's translation of the Qur'an in the future.
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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ”
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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”
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“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
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