Tayeb Salih Quotes

• Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

  Tayeb Salih

  Life, Education, Garden

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann

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• 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. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

  Tayeb Salih

  Book, Heart, Carpe Diem

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann

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• Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

  Tayeb Salih

  Childhood, World, States

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.88, Heinemann

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• I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

  Tayeb Salih

  East, West, Conflict

  "Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih dies aged 80" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mentira

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.95, Heinemann

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• Entré en el agua tan desnuda como cuando mi madre me parió. Cuando toqué por primera vez el agua fría sentí que me recorría un escalofrío, luego el escalofrío se transformó en una sensación de vigilia.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mother, Water, Naked

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