فهكذا هو؛ خصوصًا عندما شاخ، يفكر في الخير ولا يفعله ويصمم على الشر ولا يستطيع..
That is how he is, especially now that he has grown old: he thinks of doing good and does not do it, and resolves on evil and cannot.
From the novel Habashi’s Café · Chapter 22
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.