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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Kneeling, Burden

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Wildlife, Vices

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• Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Long, Rebel, Impossible

  FaceBook post by Alaa Al Aswany from Nov 26, 2012

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• Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

  Noel Coward

  Passion, Sleep, Mating

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• Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Three, Lions

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

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• A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

  May Sarton

  Voice, Space, Silence

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• A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Lunch, Sunrise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.

  Chelsea Handler

  Israel, Trying, Sides

  FaceBook post by Chelsea Handler from Jan 28, 2015

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• In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

  Rawi Hage

  Stars, Lost Ones, Cities

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Death, Black, Arabian

  "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.

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• It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, Mistake, Black

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• No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Revolutionary, Come Up, Difficult

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• I smoke so much. Three packs a day... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass.

  Dave Attell

  Smoking, Three, Bathroom

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

  Mildred Cable

  Goes On, Resentment, Moments

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

  Jean Ingelow

  Fog, Long, Red

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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• If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Littles

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• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

  Saadi

  Habit, Fountain, Found

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• It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.

  Charlton Heston

  Hands, Monsters, Looks

  "Have Gun, Will Travel" By Margot Hornblower, www.cnn.com. July 6, 1998.

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Broken, Coins

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• If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

  Muhammad

  Spiritual, Men, Done

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• On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dog, Distance, Flower

  "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)

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• Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Ems, May

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.256

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