阿拉伯文学的美在于它能够将历史与想象编织在一起。
历史的地理枢纽是世界上距离海洋最远、因此最不受海权影响的地区。
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.