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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 should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
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If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
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“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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“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― 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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