Attia Quotes

#1. No one can defeat destiny,
But everyone can make peace with it.
At the same length:
No one can outsmart destiny,
But everyone can reason with it.

Stephan Attia

#2. Oh the stellar sensation,
Oh the cosmic elevation;
Time is sober in death,
For the wine of love;
Is the blue life of the earth.

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#3. Free will is a gift, not a burden

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#4. The way to salvation begins with self realization

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#5. When the shadows shroud the woods,
And the mountains are empty and bare;
I am flying with the crow ...

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#6. Why did the undertaker sink into a deep depression?
Because he was already one foot in the grave

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#7. Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny.

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#8. When people are to busy to survive they forget to live.

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#9. If I'm a nobody, why do you bother telling me that?

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#10. It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.

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#11. You can't make it to God without interacting with the devil.
'The Adventures of Catrine and the Devil II

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#12. The source of beauty in a man,
It is humbleness and grace;
Equality is the pearl of a king,
Justice his scepter;
Salvation is his crown.

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#13. It is better to lose riches than to lose sense of humor

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#14. An exponent of love is immune to the criticism of a genius, for divine inspiration is superior to glib talk.

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#15. When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

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#16. I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

Attia Hosain

#17. Better poetry than riches,
Better poverty than fortunes.

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#18. I'd rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.

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#19. The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind

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#20. The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the law of the beast, and it knows neither reason nor compassion

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#21. How do you know your boss is a lesbian?
It's when she always park her bike in a dike

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#22. The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy.

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#23. A society without humour is like a tree without roots.

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#24. Why anarchists are so fond of Sue?
Because they are keen on Sue's side

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#25. And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.

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#26. I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.

Attia Hosain

#27. Every law has a mirror.
The reflection of primitive law is religion,
But the reflection of divine law is literature.

Stephan Attia

#28. I only wake up twice a year,
And twice a year I live;
In the equinox I am aware,
Flying high and everywhere;
On other days I grieve.

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#29. What's a catholic priest's favorite cocktail?

Bloody Mary!

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#30. We were born to serve humanity, not to slave for society

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#31. The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride.

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#32. Mankind's biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.

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#33. For those who sense and comprehend,
They know that heaven is at hand;
The river blue which stream and stream,
It has the pictures of my dream.

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#34. Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?
Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara's Bush!
From 'Walk On By II

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#35. If you wish to slay a dragon you must charm it first.

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#36. When the Earth was just a child,
He searched for his mother Venus;
And for his father Mars,
But they were not home;
They were gone elsewhere,
Out there, in the great expanse;
Beyond the breathing universe.

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#37. I do have a religion; it's just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.

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#38. On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ...

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#39. There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love.

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#40. Time never existed, time will never exist, for time is existing

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#41. But he who feels too much,
He soars in angels' tears of joy ...

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#42. What can a man read in a library of cannibals?
Bloody books bound by bones in tissues' paper.

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#43. The fact that Man is Nature's perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence

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#44. To hear her name I truly yearn,
My heart is crying out;
The sense of love I wish to earn,
Without a second doubt.

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#45. Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden

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#46. Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.

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