"Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself."

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Source : Andre Dubus (2011). “Dancing After Hours: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

Andre Dubus

#Fear Quotes #Arms Quotes #Ghost Quotes

“The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1534, Рипол Классик
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black
“I am 1,000 percent a Steelers fan.”
“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”
“I guess thatâ€™s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
“Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”

Source : "Under a Thatched Roof".
“As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf)”
“I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.”

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