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This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

She wanted nothing to come between her and the rain and the sky.

, living so close to Nature that everything you do is determined by her and each passing minute is felt rather than made use of.

We always know how the story ends. What we don't know is what happens along the way.

Isn't that her problem? That she lets his thoughts crowd in on hers - crowd out hers ...

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

And the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others?

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

Their relation was that of the sand and water, they touch, they meet, they flirt but they never mingle together.

I hardly trust myself to write about him. I do not know what I should write about him.

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?

What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.

It was too cold to dream

It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner.

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?