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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
― Education and the Social Order
― Education and the Social Order
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
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“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”
- By Hafez, as appeared in "A Thousand Splendid Suns”
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Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”
- By Hafez, as appeared in "A Thousand Splendid Suns”
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Humaam’s 2025 Year in Books
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