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ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy
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“In Miami the obsession with making things work and being practical, with making lots of money, sometimes out of the fear of starving, has replaced a sense of life and, above all, of pleasure, adventure, and irreverence.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“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
“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
“The exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“Rich folk dislike hearing poor people complain of their poverty.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
ElSayed’s 2025 Year in Books
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645 books
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494 friends
272 books
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