Tayeb Salih
"Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life..."
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"Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life..."
"كل متعلم اليوم يشتهي أن يجلس إلى مكتب وثير تحت مروحة، ويسكن بيتاً مكيّفاً تحيط به حديقة، يروح ويغدو في سيارة أمريكية عرضها عرض الشارع. وإن لم نقتلع هذا الداء من جذوره، فسيقوم فينا برجوازية لا صلة لها بواقع حياتنا..."
Tayeb Salih
Season of Migration to the North
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