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“Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means. They are the insiders, and for them, how things are is how they should be. The status quo is so much a given that it goes not just unquestioned but unseen, and the blind eye is always turned. It is those whose place is uncertain, and who are thus uneasy in their existence, who need to ask why. And who often come up with radically new answers.”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
“As with early Judaism and early Christianity, early Islam would be rooted in opposition to a corrupt status quo.”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
“to feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves”
― The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
― The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“Man journeys in darkness, and his destiny journeys toward him,” he said, and traveled on.”
― After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
― After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
“They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.”
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