He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species. - Paul Bowles

Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you’re climbing.

... the Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization painted of itself: a purely defensive group of selfless martyrs who were willing to brave the brutality of the French in order to bring hope to their suffering countrymen.

These empty days. How do you spend them?