Ameen Rihani Quotes


To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.


Citations

Rihani, Ameen. The Path of Vision. James T. White & Co., 1921, p. 89.

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Ameen Rihani
Ameen Rihani
  • Born: November 24, 1876
  • Died: September 13, 1940
  • Nationality: Lebanese, American
  • Profession: Writer

Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī), was a Lebanese American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. He became an American citizen in 1901.