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Faris Alsaleh
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Everything about our exile had been steady-state, calm and self-renewing, but now Aenea had reminded me that everything and everyone ends.
“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
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“ما أكثر ما عزوت لنفسي جرائم لم أقترفها قط ، كي لا أحرج الغير فى مجلسي”
― رمل وزبد
― رمل وزبد
“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“—No. He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
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