"Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life..."

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Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann

Tayeb Salih

#Reality Quotes #Garden Quotes #Air Quotes

“Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?”
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”
“...if I don't look after my body, I'll have nowhere to live.”
“If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.”
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”
“So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching...the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship. He's already broken the chains...already seated us with Him...already invited us 'into the glorious'.”
“A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.”

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