Tayeb Salih Quotes

#1. You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Tayeb Salih

#2. Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain.

Tayeb Salih

#3. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Tayeb Salih

#4. I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

#5. I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Tayeb Salih

#6. By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

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#7. The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

Tayeb Salih

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

Tayeb Salih

#9. 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