Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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What’s astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter’s perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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