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  1. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    La dicha completa es algo que pasó. Hay algo que echamos de menos cada vez que estamos a solas con nosotros mismos, pero eso no regresa. Se nos aparece desde el pasado con un pálido recuerdo, como esa luz suave que se filtra a través de la mirilla de la puerta.
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  2. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Călătoria pare să fie destul de lungă. Tânărul pare să se fi îmbarcat în trenul lui Auguste Compte, să fi trecut prin stația teologiei, a cărei deviză era: „Da! Crede și nu cerceta" pentru a poposi și a scormoni acum în tărâmurile metafizicii a cărei deviză este: „Nu!", iar în depărtare se întrezărește realismul, pe al cărui frontispiciu stă scris: „Deschide ochii și întdrăznește!"."
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  3. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Isn't it sad that a man of no significance like this marriage clerk should impede the progress of your life? But a lowly worm eats the corpses of the most exalted individuals.
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  4. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens."
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  5. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Treat a disease with drunkenness, laughter, and sport. If you find any trace of it after that, give it to me.
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  6. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Din splendorile cafelei de odineoară, neschimbat rămăsese doar mangalul.
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  7. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    His lover appeared to have boarded the train at Auguste Comte and passed by the station of theology, where the password was 'Yes, Mother.' This train was now traversing the realm of metaphysics, where the password was 'Certainly not, Mother.' In the distance, visible through a telescope, was the mountain of reality on which was inscribed its password, 'Open your eyes and be courageous.
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  8. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    هكذا الألم والحياة توأمان، لست الآن إلا ألما خالصا في ثياب رجل
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  9. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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  10. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.
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  11. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    إذا كانت الحقيقة قاسية فالكذب دميم، ليست الحقيقة قاسية ولكن الانفلات من الجهل مؤلم كالولادة، اجر وراء الحقيقة حتى تنقطع منك الأنفاس، ارض بالألم حتى تخلق من جديد، هذه المعاني تحتاج إلى عمر لاستيعابها، عمر من التعب تتخلله سويعات من الخمر
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  12. Naguib Mahfouz _ Palace of Desire

    Laugh till you're exhausted."
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