Tayeb salih quotes about death

          “I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit.”.

          Though floating on the water, I was not part of it.!

          Tayeb Salih

          Tayeb Salih (12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO.

          Quotes

          Season of Migration to the North (1966)

          • It was a steamingly hot July night, the Nile that year having experienced one of those floodings that occur once every twenty or thirty years and become legendary - something for fathers to talk to their sons about.

          • But I would hope you will not entertain the idea, dear sirs, that Mustafa Sa'eed had become an obsession that was ever with me in my comings and goings.

            Tayeb Salih Quotes I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit.

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          • Though floating on the water, I was not part of it.
          • Season of Migration to the North is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking novel written by Sudanese author Tayeb Salih.
          • Though floating on the water, I was not part of it.

            • Sometimes months would pass without his crossing my mind. In any case, he had died, by drowning or by suicide - God alone knows.

            • Chapter 4, pg. 61
            • The living cannot dwell on each person that dies and try to figure out why.
          • It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built