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“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“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
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
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“I’m caught between my desire to understand and my desire to appear as though I already understand.”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“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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