Rafika Smati Quotes & Sayings

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Egregious.
most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd."
imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd. — Kurt Vonnegut

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season. — Matthew Henry

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott

See? We never needed you. — Nnedi Okorafor

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on. — Zaha Hadid

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul. — Lois Greiman

But when you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, 65 there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self. 66 — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

There isn't doubt about that, everyone dies. — Deyth Banger

My next thought was that it might be a city of the jinn, inhabited by a race of demons, its walls the work of magic, it houses built of smoke. — Jonathan Aycliffe