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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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“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ”
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“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
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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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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”
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