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In the Eye of the Sun QUOTES

In the Eye of the Sun QUOTES

1 " You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell-- "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

2 " She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed . "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

3 " I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

4 " Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going to bed and because that means that the day is officially over and she doesn't have to do anything more about it. About anything. "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

5 " How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them. "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

6 " I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun

7 " It is so pleasant, so deeply peaceful: spending the day with you. "

― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun