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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.

Ahdaf Soueif

When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.
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Care Each Layer Moment Paper Precious Tissue Turn Unfolded
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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Across Each Other People Space Write Writing
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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Assuming Mean Same Sometimes Thing Use
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
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Doe Image Looking Mind Myself Prejudice Sentence
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance.
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Chronicling Happy Passion Set Shining Stretch Voice
The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ?
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Better Desert Edge Foam Nothing Scalloped Waves Whip White
And Egypt? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ?
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Ability Absorb Country Event Pores Resilence Responsibility Strength
So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you’re blown away–
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Closer Germ Heart Nowhere Overthrow Reversal Thing
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it .
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Beach Better Blue Narrow Nothing Wave White World
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 .
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Air Course Dark Granted Matter Thinking Took Wrong
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.
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Appear Beaten Cell Face Killed Love Loved Men Mostly Wall
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
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Centuries Children Civilization Dream Dreaming Mother
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.
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Empty Eye Golden Great Hair Handed Only Poetry Skin Sunshine Take Tongue
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.
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Bring Date Palm Rug Silk Sunshine Way
But things move on and by the time you’ve plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
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Around Change Move Moving Plotted Position Running Think World
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.
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Book Exist Like Man People Reading Thinking Wall

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.

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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.

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