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“Death is a certainty, an inevitable realization, the only thing that we know will befall us. There are no exceptions, no surprises: all paths lead to it. Everything we do is a preparation for it, a preparation that we begin at birth, whimpering with our foreheads against the ground. We never move farther away from death, only closer. But if it is a certainty, then why are we surprised when it comes? If this life is a short passage that lasts only an hour or a day, then why do we fight to prolong it one more day or hour? Worldly life is treacherous, eternity is better.3”
― Death and the Dervish
― Death and the Dervish
“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”
― She
― She
“Where’s the sun?” he asked me once.
“Behind the clouds.”
“Is it always there? Even when it’s cloudy?”
“Always.”
“Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?”
“No.”
“And if we were on a minaret?”
“No. The clouds are above the minaret.”
“And if a hole was made in the clouds?”
Indeed, why don’t people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?”
― Death and the Dervish
“Behind the clouds.”
“Is it always there? Even when it’s cloudy?”
“Always.”
“Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?”
“No.”
“And if we were on a minaret?”
“No. The clouds are above the minaret.”
“And if a hole was made in the clouds?”
Indeed, why don’t people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?”
― Death and the Dervish
“I swear on time, which is the beginning and the end of everything, that everybody is always at lost...”
― Death and the Dervish
― Death and the Dervish
“Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven’t bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.”
― Death and the Dervish
― Death and the Dervish
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