Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always… — Rawi Hage Book Copy Share Image
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When… — Rawi Hage Camels Copy Share Image
“Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in… — Rawi Hage Asexual Copy Share Image
“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.” — Rawi Hage Products Copy Share Image
“God created each one of us with a light inside. I’ve had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has… — Rawi Hage Beam Copy Share Image
“So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.” — Rawi Hage Flowers Copy Share Image
“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect… — Rawi Hage Friendship and love Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a… — Rawi Hage Fiction Copy Share Image
“The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in… — Rawi Hage Beginning Copy Share Image
“What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red… — Rawi Hage Legal Copy Share Image
“Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual… — Rawi Hage Henry-miller Copy Share Image
“This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.” — Rawi Hage Die Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking. — Rawi Hage Air Copy Share Image
“And when Rambo whispered to me, assuring me of my nearest death, I was relieved at my parents' absence, for my death… — Rawi Hage Death Copy Share Image
“Then let’s treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.” — Rawi Hage Erections Copy Share Image
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because… — Rawi Hage Arms Copy Share Image
“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of… — Rawi Hage Libraries Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.” — Rawi Hage Bitter Copy Share Image
“My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in… — Rawi Hage Silence Copy Share Image
“I drove through the suburbs, where all the houses looked identical, one variation of another of the same thing. I said to… — Rawi Hage Suburbs Copy Share Image