Joey
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“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both;”
― The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Sometime when people see a beautiful thing they want to destroy it. The thing make them feel ugly so they act ugly.”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
“We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practised since.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“She put her free hand briefly across his round cheek. To touch like this was permitted here, among these stateless people, where the rules were unknown and in any case suspended.”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
“The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful. However much she thought of to tell, however the words flowed in her head as she performed her chores, despite the emotion that swelled and throbbed while the storylines formed, the telling was inevitably brief and blunt, a poor thing, stunted as a failed crop.”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
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Book Club based in Beirut. We meet at least once a month to discuss a book. We vote on lists of books and pick one or two books to read for each month ...more
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"نوفليّات" نافذة على عالم إصدارات نوفل تفتحها هاشيت أنطوان أمام محبّي الكتب للتعرّف على مجموعتها من الأدباء والكتّاب والمؤلّفين. إنّ موقع التواصل الأد ...more
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