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“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”
― She
― She
“Where’s the sun?” he asked me once.
“Behind the clouds.”
“Is it always there? Even when it’s cloudy?”
“Always.”
“Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?”
“No.”
“And if we were on a minaret?”
“No. The clouds are above the minaret.”
“And if a hole was made in the clouds?”
Indeed, why don’t people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?”
― Death and the Dervish
“Behind the clouds.”
“Is it always there? Even when it’s cloudy?”
“Always.”
“Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?”
“No.”
“And if we were on a minaret?”
“No. The clouds are above the minaret.”
“And if a hole was made in the clouds?”
Indeed, why don’t people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?”
― Death and the Dervish
“Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven’t bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.”
― Death and the Dervish
― Death and the Dervish
“Do you think you can rule the world and actually improve it? I do not believe it can be done. The world is sacred. You cannot improve it. Ultimately, you can only change yourselves.”
― The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity: An Illustrated 10th Century Iraqi Ecological Fable
― The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity: An Illustrated 10th Century Iraqi Ecological Fable
“Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.”
― Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions
― Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions
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