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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Quotes

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Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra