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Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) QUOTES

Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) QUOTES

1 " paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

2 " I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

3 " Kamal was distressed and angry, not merely at the insult to the honor of teachers but first and foremost for the sake of learning itself, for what he felt was true learning. He did not think well of occupations that shook the earth. He had often found that the writers who inspired him applied derogatory epithets to them, referring, for example, to their counterfeit grandeur and ephemeral glory. Basing his opinion on what they had said, he believed that the only true greatness lay in the life of learning and truth. Thus all manifestations of majesty and pomp seemed spurious and trivial to him. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

4 " وأي مأساة في أن تندمج نشوة القلب والجسد في آلية العادة المنظمة العاقلة الباردة المتكررة القاتلة للشعور والجدة كأنها رؤية روحانية رفيقة تجسدت في صلاة لفظية ترددها الذاكرة بلا وعي !!! "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

5 " ينبغي أن يخرج من حيرته، فإنه لا يعلم حتى كيف يحزن، يود لو يخلو إلى نفسه ولكن أين؟ سينقلب البيت جحيمًا بعد دقيقة او اثنتين، وسيلحق به الأصدقاء فلا يدعون له فرصة للتفكير.. متى يتأمل الخسارة التي مُني بها متى يتهيأ أن يغيب فيها عن الدنيا جميعًا؟ يبدو هذا بعيدًا اولكنه آت لا ريب فيه، وهذا قصارى ما يجد من عزاء في راهنه.. أجل سيأتي وقت يخلو فيه إلى نفسه، ويفرغ إلى حزنه بكل كيانه، هنالك يمعِن النظر في موقفه على ضوء الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل، أطوار حياته كلها من طفولته وصباه إلى ريق شبابه، وما أثار من آمال وما خلف من ذكريات مطلقًا لدموعه العنان حتى يستنفذها عن آخرها. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

6 " love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

7 " The way love can disregard fears, however, is an age-old wonder. No fear is able to spoil love’s development or keep it from dreaming of its appointed hour. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

8 " Resnica ni kruta, le prebujenje iz nevednosti boli kakor vsako drugo rojstvo. Teci za resnico, dokler ti ne zmanjka sape. Sprejmi bolečino, ki je nujna, da se boš na novo ustvaril. Vse življenje bo trajalo, da boš razumel te misli; vse težko življenje, prekinjeno s trenutki pijanosti. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

9 " - لماذا إذن يصر الناس على الجواز منذ بدء الخليقة؟
- لأن الزواج - كالموت - لا ينفع معه التحذير ولا الحذر."
~ بين القصرين "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

10 " He realized that he was very opinionated and would not deviate from what he believed. He was the kind of person who requests advice to shore up his opinion, not to undermine it. Even so, that would provide consolation and relief. "

― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)