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Idries Shah

"The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again."

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"The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again."

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"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."

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"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
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