Ali Abukishk
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“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman...because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”
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“... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.”
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”
― The Sunset Limited
― The Sunset Limited
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
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“though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.”
― Staring at the Sun: Being at Peace with Your Own Mortality
― Staring at the Sun: Being at Peace with Your Own Mortality
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