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- يا الله، عندما يحين وقت وفاتي، اغفر لي حتى إن لم أستطع أن أطلب المغفرة، وارحمني.

- 𝒀𝒂 𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒉, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆.

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Al Ghazali

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Do not take revenge, the rotten fruits will fall by themselves.

Unknown

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John Augutus Shedd, “Salt from my Attic.”

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It is December and we must be brave.

Natalie Diaz, "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word."

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Anne Sexton, “Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters.”

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I just want to be in my deen girl era forever and ever permanently

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They found nothing wrong with the rose, so they complained it had thorns.

- African Proverb

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just me and my extremely specific pinterest boards, coffee & romance novels against the world <3

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Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Namesake”

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“For once I need to choose myself, or else I'm going to lose myself.”

Veronika Jensen

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Paul Auster, “The Invention of Solitude.”

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Not a day goes by without reminding me that I am just not meant for this world

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“they were two reasons I was scared to let people in; the damage they could do, and the damage they could find.”

Chris Mc Geown

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“I had to return to the darkness, I couldn't stand the sun.”

Franz Kafka, "Letters to Milena"

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what piece of literature has affected you most and why?

I would say “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini because you’ll never be the same person again after reading it.