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"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."

"We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!"

"When you pick a flower, you become so besotted in its beauty; you dare not judge how it became that way, let it be the same lesson for humans; Spread your light, not your pain."

"Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human."
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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."

"A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life."

"And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek."

"Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose."

"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."

"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."

"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."
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