All that remained was for me not to let my world be corrupted by that world.
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Life isn't the only thing that lives here.Its opposite, its partner and murderer, known as death, shares its quarters,not as an honored guest but as a silent roommate whose presence is so quiet as to make him almost invisible.
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A Brazilian journalist once asked me, "To what do you attribute the West's 'misunderstanding ' of Islam?"
My answer was, " If a 'misunderstanding' serves the interests of certain people and helps them realize their goals, those people will decide to misunderstand. In such cases, the misunderstanding isn't an accident that can be corrected through knowledge, dialogue, or better information. It's a deliberate choice.
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Real pain doesn't need our rhetoric.
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Truth needs no eloquence.
After the death of the horseman,
the homebound horse
says everything
without saying anything.
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We have been living with 'chronic pain' and 'chronic resistance' for more than a century.
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We've seen both despair and hope so often that we no longer know exactly what either of them is.
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...so what is left for us to see?
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I learned to appear 'strong' though my fragility was plain to any intelligent eye.
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The state went crazy.
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In dictatorships, local industry's finest product- the best made, best packaged, hardest wearing, and most quickly delivered to the home - is fear.
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Cruelty is cruelty and abuse abuse, whoever the perpetrator.
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I tell myself sometimes, especially when things are a little mixed up, that the brain is the laziest of the body's members and its dullest.
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If one could voluntarily decide to go mad, I would have decided to go mad.
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Humans are full of contradictions however much they deny it.
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