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“Were it not for this human weakness, the beautiful human emotions that sometimes produce great human deeds would not exist. Weakness, too, is sometimes a manifestation of beauty; we must not forget that.”
“The Flower of Life” refers to the period Tawfiq al-Hakim spent in Paris during his youth. During his stay there, he wrote a series of letters to his friend André. Several years later, al-Hakim visited André, and those letters fell into his hands. He took them in with tenderness and care, as if carrying the ashes left over from the withered flower of his youth. He cherished these letters and translated them into Arabic to bear witness to that fertile period of his life, and to express, with complete spontaneity, the young man he once was. They reveal his soul wandering in the human realm, his early awareness of art and his fascination with theater, his discussions of literature, poetry, culture, and thought, as well as his accounts of many personal situations and his reactions to them. Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of these letters is their absolute honesty; they were not written for publication, but rather are the intimate conversations of a friend with another.
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