"I must settle for freedom in this modern time"

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Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

Leila Aboulela

#Modern Quotes #Settling Quotes

“The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.”
“Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”
“I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.”

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“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!”

Source : Aristophanes (1954). “Lysistrata: an English version by Dudley Fitts”
“Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.”
“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”
“Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.”
“There are many roads to Mecca.”

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