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“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
“American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won’t violate one another’s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before venturing basic questions about each other’s backgrounds....In the East, I’ve heard it said, there’s intimacy without friendship; in the West, there’s friendship without intimacy.”
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“Khalil Gibran said that parents are like a bow, And children like arrows. The more the bow bends and stretches, the farther the arrow flies. I fly, not because I am special, but because they stretched for me.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku
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