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I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery goodTalal AbuGhazaleh
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He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.Talal AbuGhazaleh
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There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?Talal AbuGhazaleh
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Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?Zeina Kassem
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Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to remove it piece by piece, it only multiplies like a tumor. And if you try to fight it, it becomes like quicksand; you try to claw your way back to the surface, and for a second you feel the fresh air against your face, thinking you've survived, only to be pulled fiercely back down again, swallowed whole, nothing left. .Zeina Kassem
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It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.Zeina Kassem
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I don't think I ever fully understood before now the old saying that goes: "A mother's heart loves her young one until he grows; her ill one until he heals; and her traveler until he returns." I have experienced all kinds of waiting; I've waited for my young to grow and the sick to heal, but I am still waiting on my little traveler and I do not know how long it will be until I see him again.Zeina Kassem
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Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.Zeina Kassem
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From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life. I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.Zeina Kassem
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It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.Zeina Kassem
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The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices into its secret depths.Zeina Kassem
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I watched life and death unfold like a dance on the side of that road. My son was born with a bloodstained face and he died with blood from the accident covering that same face.Zeina Kassem