Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T.E. Lawrence

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible

The Semite hovered between lust and self-denial

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God