"It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic."

-- Sami Michael

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“Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.”
“We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.”
“... You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”
“If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.”
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”

Source : George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria
“Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.”

Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.
“What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.”
“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”

Source : "Longing" in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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