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Abu Abbas

Abu Abbas

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Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Abu Abbas

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“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.” Uncategorized
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” Uncategorized
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice Uncategorized
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” Uncategorized
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours” Uncategorized
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!” Uncategorized
“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.” Uncategorized
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” Uncategorized
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” Uncategorized
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you.” Uncategorized
“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life” Uncategorized
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” Uncategorized
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Uncategorized
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.” Uncategorized
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” Uncategorized
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” Uncategorized
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” Uncategorized
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” Uncategorized
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Uncategorized
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.” Uncategorized