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• The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I…
• Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
• All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
• Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like…
• I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers…
• I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages.…
• A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
• What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three…
• Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person…
• For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is…
• Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a…

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