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“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”

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Abdellatif Laabi, born in 1942, is a renowned poet whose works are known for their profound emotions and unique style, deeply loved by readers in the Arab world. more

“I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.”

Way Needs Persons Two Real Body Sleep White Week Cold Personality Bed Lays Saint Scared Superiors Hated Conformity Yellow Complaints Non Conformity Unbreakable Two Of Me

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”

States Absolutes Who You Are Arise Firm Isolation Dimensions Belonging Conformity Within You Nothingness Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All

Source: I Loved You All

“Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.”

Felt Existence Wine Conformity Fatigue Non Conformity Wanderers

Author:Rumi

“And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.”

Ifs Knows Looks Soul Enemy Mirrors Stranger Conformity Non Conformity

Author:Giorgos Seferis

“If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.”

Ifs Moments Growth Existence Responsibility Produce Illness Conformity Integration Symptoms Taking Responsibility Non Conformity

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.”

People Ifs Children Evil Found Accepting Terrible Ocean Opposites Shock Conformity Wickedness If You Believe Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

“... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.”

Wells I Can Soul My Own Conformity Non Conformity

Author:Shuntaro Tanikawa

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