The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit - Somerset Maugham
4/06/2013
Longing and Fate
Before me my longing,
And behind me fate.
- Umar ibn al-Farid (1181-1245), as quoted between chapters in Adina Hoffman's book, 'My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century.'
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