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Pure Colour
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But how does she know if she has been changed, or if she just so much wants to be changed that since it happened, she has been pretending?
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.”
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“I return to English as if to the arms of a lover and feel instantly safe and indigenous there. What are borders, anyway? Just lines in the sand. What are citizens? Just people fucking within the same lines in the sand - and their children and then their children”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.”
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
“To wake up from a dream you have been dreaming since birth is powerful. But to wake up from a dream you have been dreaming from birth with almost a hundred million people, brothers and strangers alike, a collective nightmare, a nightmare we had been imbibing all our lives and passing around to one another, feeding innocently to our newborns—that we are worthless, that we deserve no better than the filth we live in . . . If there is a Judgment Day, this was it.”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
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