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“يا مَوْتُ قدْ مزَّقْتَ صَدْري
وقَصَمْت بالأَرزاءَ ظَهْرِي
ورمَيْتَني مِنْ حالقٍ
وسَخِرْتَ منِّي أَيَّ سُخْرِ
فلَبِثْتُ مرضوضَ الفؤادِ
أَجرُّ أجنحتي بذُعْرِ”
―
وقَصَمْت بالأَرزاءَ ظَهْرِي
ورمَيْتَني مِنْ حالقٍ
وسَخِرْتَ منِّي أَيَّ سُخْرِ
فلَبِثْتُ مرضوضَ الفؤادِ
أَجرُّ أجنحتي بذُعْرِ”
―
“On other planets, they look up and wish upon you. Because on other planets, you live on a star.”
― I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
― I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
“she always chose peace over truth,”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications ‘the Middle Ages’ thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. BRIAN STOCK, Listening for the text”
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
“She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?”
― Friend of My Youth
― Friend of My Youth
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