الاستسلام، لا الصوفي ولا المنعزل عن الدنيا، بل استسلام مفتوح العينين، واعٍ، يُلهمه الحب، هو الشعور الوحيد من مشاعرنا الذي يستحيل أن يصير زيفًا.

“Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.”Joseph Conrad — Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays) (2015)