"Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides."

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Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

Ameen Rihani

#Cousin Quotes #World Quotes #Messengers Quotes

“A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.”
“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”
“Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.”
“May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.”

Source : Song: Lonely Soldier
“The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.”
“I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”
“If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.”

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