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"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."
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"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."
"Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK."
"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"
"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."
"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."
"Believe me when I say: 'Out of all those around, she's the best locksmith in town.' Her stethoscope ears know when the dials of your heart click into place.She's been cutting keys for years.You don't stand a chance with that flimsy case.Alas, no matter how you lock your heart- bolt, fixture, and key- she's got nimble fingersthat pick locks for free.Padlocks and deadboltsare all in vain.Why do you even botherwith that chain?She's way too smart. Along with ours, she'll have your heart. And you will see that the best locksmith in town is she."
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
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"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."
"Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name."
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