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One Thousand And One Nights
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Quotes
- “[M]y auntie, Tití, who was the reader in the family, gave me a picture book version of "The Arabian Nights," and I was s...”
- “Scheherazade...possessed courage, wit, and penetration, infinitely above her sex. She had read much, and had so admirabl...”
- “I'd like every single Arab to read One Thousand and One Nights. They [would] learn a lot from them, especially [because]...”
- “On the black road of life think not to findEither a friend or lover to your mind;If you must love, oh then, love solitud...”
- “Maslamah ibn Dinar said: "Each pleasure that does not forward the soul to God is not so much as a pleasure as a calamity...”
- “Hanan al-Shaykh, "Scheherazade: From Storytelling 'Slave' To 'First Feminist'" at NPR (9 June 2013)”
- “I hope that Allah will not make me immortal, for death is His greatest gift to any true believer.”
- “It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of our memory.”
- “Julia Alvarez, Interview, "By the Book: Julia Alvarez", The New York Times (11 April 2019)”
- “When I was aliveI was dust which was,But now I am dust in dustI am dust which never was.”
- “A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.”
- “ODQ, 2nd ed. (1953) p. 14: "Who will change old lamps for new ones? New lamps for old?”
- “The Wazir of King Yunan and Rayyan the Doctor (tr. E. Powys Mathers, i, 1929)”
- “Isabel Allende compilation of interview questions, isabelallende.com (2014)”
- “The proverb says: "Each man envies, the strong openly, the weak in secret.”
- “The Tale of the Magic Book (tr. E. Powys Mathers, vii, 1929)”
- “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (tr. Anonymous, xi, 1721)”
- “Zummurud and Ali-Shar (tr. E. Powys Mathers, iii, 1929)”
- “King Umar al-Numan (tr. E. Powys Mathers, ii, 1929)”
- “Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights (1984), p. 57”
- “Frame story (tr. Jonathan Scott, i, 1811)”
- “Who'll change old lamps for new ones?”
- “Aladdin (tr. Anonymous, x, 1721)”