ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy
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“Literature is a sort of picture—a sort of picture or mirror.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
“Yes, all that you have done to give me pleasure has become converted into a source of grief, and left behind it only useless regret.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
“I always went to bed like someone getting ready for a long trip: books, pills, glasses of water, clocks, a light, pencils, notebooks. To go to bed and switch off the light has been for me to submit to a totally unknown world, full of delicious as well as sinister promises.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“على المرءِ أن يعترف يا أميمتي، بأنّه قد يحدث له أن يعيش في الحياة، وهو لا يعلمُ بأن هناك على مقربةٍ منه، كتابًا يتضمن مجموع تفاصيلِ حياته، وقد سُلط عليها الضوء، كتابًا يتضمن جميع ما لم ينتبه إليه من قبل هو بالذات، أبدًا؛ وما أن يشرع في قراءة ذلك الكتاب، حتى يأخذ في تذكر ذلك الماضي، ويستعيده، ويستوعبه شيئًا فشيئًا.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
“If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
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