Roya Kadhem

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The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)

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“March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond

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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

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“They asked 'do you love her to death?' I said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

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“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

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