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Naguib Mahfouz
“ما أجمل أن ينصحنا الأغنياء بالفقر”
نجيب محفوظ, The Thief and the Dogs

Naguib Mahfouz
“سوف تسمع أقوالا متضاربة ، و سيدلي كل رجل بما يؤكد أنه الحق بينما ينطق عن هواه. لقد علمتني الحياة بألا أثق بأحد و لا أصدق أحدا”
نجيب محفوظ, Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth

Elif Batuman
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot
tags: time

Elif Batuman
“In my heart, I knew that Whorf was right. I knew I thought differently in Turkish and English - not because thought and language were the same, but because different languages forced you to think about different things. Turkish, for example, had a suffix, -mis, that you put on verbs to report anything you didn't witness personally. You were always stating your degree of subjectivity. You were always thinking about it, every time you opened your mouth.

The suffix -mis had not exact English equivalent. It could be translated as "it seems" or "I heard" or "apparently." I associated it with Dilek, my cousin on my father's side - tiny, skinny, dark-complexioned Dilek, who was my age but so much smaller. "You complained-mis to your mother," Dilek would tell me in her quiet, precise voice. "The dog scared-mis you." "You told-mis your parents that if Aunt Hulya came to America, she could live in your garage." When you heard -mis, you knew that you had been invoked in your absence - not just you but your hypocrisy, cowardice, and lack of generosity. Every time I heard -mis, I felt caught out. I was scared of the dogs. I did complain to my mother, often. The -mis tense was one of the things I complained to my mother about. My mother thought it was funny.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Henry Miller
“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.”
Henry Miller, Sexus

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