Tayeb Salih

"O Maryoud" You are nothing... You are no one, O Maryoud... You chose your grandfather, O Maryoud, and your grandfather chose you because you both weigh more heavily in the scales of the people of this world... And your father weighs more heavily than you and your grandfather in the scales of the just... He loved tirelessly and gave without hope and stayed in haste and sensed like a bird senses, and stayed on a journey and left in haste... He dreamed the dreams of the weak and provisioned himself with the provisions of the poor, and his soul tempted him to glory but he rebuffed it... And when life called him and when life called him... "I said yes... I said yes... I said yes... But the road back was harder because I had walked..." From the novel "Maryoud"