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T.E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

  • Maria Al Makahlehhas quoted7 years ago
    The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God
  • Артем Гришинhas quoted8 years ago
    Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quoted2 days ago
    However, there was no measuring the stupidity of the Turkish Army; a point which helped us now and again, and harmed us constantly, for we could not avoid despising them for it (Arabs being a race gifted with uncommon quickness of mind, and over-valuing it) and an army suffered when unable to yield honour to the enemy.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quoted15 days ago
    Palestine became a land of milk and honey to those who had spent forty years in Sinai: Damascus had the name of an earthly paradise to the tribes which could enter it only after weeks and weeks of painful marching across the flint-stones of this northern desert: and likewise the Kaseim of Arfaja in which we spent that night, after five days across the blazing Houl in the teeth of a sand-storm, looked fresh and countryfied
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quoted24 days ago
    Ancient and artificial societies like this of the Sherifs and feudal chieftains of Arabia found a sense of honourable security when dealing with us in such proof that the highest place in our state was not a prize for merit or ambition.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quotedlast month
    Often the parties did not know their aim, and blundered till the march of events took control. Victory in general habit leaned to the clear-sighted, though fortune and superior intelligence could make a sad muddle of nature's 'inexorable' law.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quotedlast month
    In his modern war--absolute war he called it--two nations professing incompatible philosophies put them to the test of force. Philosophically, it was idiotic, for while opinions were arguable, convictons needed shooting to be cured; and the struggle could end only when the supporters of the one immaterial principle had no more means of resistance against the supporters of the other.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quotedlast month
    it left a bad taste in my mouth. The Colonel, like his countrymen, was a realist in love, and war. Even in situations of poetry the French remained incorrigible prose-writers, seeing by the directly-thrown light of reason and understanding, not through the half-closed eye, mistily, by things' essential radiance, in the manner of the imaginative British: so the two races worked ill together on a great undertaking.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quoted2 months ago
    Your good and my good, perhaps they are different, and either forced good or forced evil will make a people cry with pain.
  • Alexey Sidorukhas quoted2 months ago
    while very ready to hire my body out on petty service, I hesitated to throw my mind frivolously away.
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