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Hisham Matar
“To live a life is not, as I have sometime thought, to be condemned to witness the slow death of things. Or it's not that alone, but, chiefly and above all else, certainly above country and religion and our various affiliations, life is for the living.”
Hisham Matar, My Friends
tags: life

“God veil our faults," as the old folks say. A simple, much overused prayer. But what little wisdom it contains. A philosophy of sorts. I love how modest it is. I mean, they could have said, "God erase our faults," Now that would've been ambitious. But "veil" is better. It presupposes that to live a life is to have faults, that no one is perfect and certainly no one is innocent. Not even you and I.”
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Hisham Matar
“why would God want to reward absolute obedience, regardless of the consequences, when He had bestowed on us reason, granting us not only the ability but the responsibility to arrive at our own decisions?”
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Hisham Matar
“But to have an endless number of books sit on the shelf just because one has read them or might one day read them is absurd. Besides, is there anything more depressing than a wall of books? But you, my dear, disagree. Like Montaigne, you believe that the very presence of books in your room cultivates you, that books are not only to be read but to be lived with.”
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tags: books

Hisham Matar
“My faith in literature too returned. Books, particularly great novels, never before seemed more practical to the business of living.”
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