“So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does she think that this is what life means? She goes to work in the dark and comes home when it’s dark. Does she know what the world looks like when the sun is shining?”
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“There was the world and there is you, where I belong clouds are more powerful than the sun.”
“Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.”
“لا الشمس ولا الموت ولا الحب : نستطيع أن نفتح عيوننا فيها”
“Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks”
“He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.”
“The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.”