“Exiles have a shared smell: the smell of longing for something else; a smell that remembers another smell.”
― In the Presence of Absence
― In the Presence of Absence
“They wrote their narrative: We have returned. They wrote our narrative: They have returned to the desert. They put us on trial: Why were you born here? We said: Why was Adam born in paradise?”
― In the Presence of Absence
― In the Presence of Absence
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