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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced.
"I know," he said. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. Even tho he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms.

“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.” - Baba