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Tayeb Salih
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“It was a steamingly hot July night, the Nile that year having experienced one of those floodings that occur once every twenty or thirty years and become legendary - something for fathers to talk to their sons about.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I would hope you will not entertain the idea, dear sirs, that Mustafa Sa'eed had become an obsession that was ever with me in my comings and goings. Sometimes months would pass without his crossing my mind. In any case, he had died, by drowning or by suicide - God alone knows.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built up against one another at different times, either because they were needed or because my grandfather found himself with some spare money for which he had no other use.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are my responsibility, and one of the reasons that brings me here each year is to see how they are getting on.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I told him that Mustafa Sa'eed was a lie. 'Do you want to know the truth about Mustafa Sa'eed?' I said to him with another drunken laugh.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had not thought of the boys during the whole of the ghastly journey. I had been thinking of her. Again I said to Mahjoub: 'What happened?'”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world has turned suddenly upside down. Love? Love does not do this. This is hatred. I feel hatred and seek revenge; my adversary is within and I needs (sic) must confront him. Even so, there is still in my mind a modicum of sense that is aware of the irony of the situation. I begin from where Mustafa Sa'eed had left off. Yet he at least made a choice, while I have chosen nothing.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had put out the candles and locked the door of the room and that of the courtyard without doing anything. Another fire would not have done any good.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Haneen is often seen traveling around with no possessions, food, or people for he is “a pious man wholly dedicated to his religious devotions,”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although many people feel depressed when they see him, (because he reminds them of death, the afterlife, and prayers.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the people, he is not a person, but an institution”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...the Imam is revered and followed by only the more traditional villagers. To most young men and the influential “gang,” the Imam is “a necessary evil”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where does the lamplight end? How does the darkness begin? And does it matter?”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human world is a “boiling cauldron” that cannot be defined precisely ― it is a dynamic fluid with smooth gradation within, at the same time integral and turbulent, and both known and unknown to itself.”
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source