ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy
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“Literature is a sort of picture—a sort of picture or mirror.”
― 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
“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
“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
“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
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