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"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future."
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"I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."
"Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
"If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace."
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