"Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical."

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Source : "'Lama'at' ('Divine Flashes')". Poem by Fakhruddin Iraqi,

Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

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“My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.”

Source : "Music to the ears". www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.
“When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.”
“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”
“When I say â€œwhen youâ€™re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,â€ I mean that you donâ€™t always take care of yourself.”
“We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.”
“At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.”

Source : Mark Tobey, Arthur L. Dahl (1984). “Mark Tobey, art and belief”, George Ronald Pub Ltd
“Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.”
“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.262, Macmillan

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