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Although many people feel depressed when they see him, (because he reminds them of death, the afterlife, and prayers.

— Tayeb Salih The Wedding of Zein (1968)

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Where does the lamplight end? How does the darkness begin? And does it matter?

The Wedding of Zein (1968)

Haneen is often seen traveling around with no possessions, food, or people for he is “a pious man wholly dedicated to his religious devotions,”

The Wedding of Zein (1968)

I had put out the candles and locked the door of the room and that of the courtyard without doing anything. Another fire would not have done any good.

Season of Migration to the North (1966)

They are my responsibility, and one of the reasons that brings me here each year is to see how they are getting on.

Season of Migration to the North (1966)

To the people, he is not a person, but an institution

The Wedding of Zein (1968)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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