“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
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“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history.”
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“Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”
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Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”
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“the way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.”
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“Why should I not defy
Destinies strong and dear;
What can man do but try?
(Kirtlan translation)”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Rendered Literally Into Modern English From the Alliterative Romance-poem of A.D. 1360, From Cotton Ms. Nero Ax in ... and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature
Destinies strong and dear;
What can man do but try?
(Kirtlan translation)”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Rendered Literally Into Modern English From the Alliterative Romance-poem of A.D. 1360, From Cotton Ms. Nero Ax in ... and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature
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