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"People don't know anymore why we've had eight years of war. Why their children have died. The entire war was just a big setup to destroy both the Iranian and Iraqi armies. The former the most powerful in the Middle East in 1980, and the latter represented a real danger to Israel. The West sold weapons to both camps and we, we were stupid enough to enter into this cynical game... eight years of war for nothing!"
— Apr 14, 2023 04:42AM
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Christian
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The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: "Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my makeup be seen? Are they going to whip me?" no longer asks herself: "Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What's going on in political prisons?"
— Apr 17, 2023 06:51PM
Christian
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
— Apr 14, 2023 04:58AM
Christian
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There were also the streets. Many has changed names. They were now called martyr what's-his-name avenue or martyr something-or-other street. It was very unsettling. I felt as though I were walking through a cemetery, surrounded by the victims of a war I had fled.
— Apr 14, 2023 04:34AM
Christian
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"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."
— Apr 14, 2023 04:25AM
Christian
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Despite the doctor's orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes. I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.
— Apr 14, 2023 04:13AM
Christian
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Today, in retrospect, I no longer condemn him. Markus had a history, a family, friends. I had no one but him. I wanted him to be at once my boyfriend, my father, my mother, my twin. I had projected everything onto him. It was surely not easy for a boy of nineteen. . . . I didn't have anyone. My entire existence had been planned around Markus. . . . it's a banal story of love that almost carried me away.
— Apr 14, 2023 04:05AM
Christian
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"In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... always keep your dignity and be true to yourself."
— Apr 14, 2023 04:01AM
