The Haj
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Read between August 21 - August 26, 2019
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Don’t make your dog starve, I say, for someone else will give him a piece of bread and take him away.
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Never trust anyone, especially your best friend.
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I believe they trusted me, but when one holds such a secret above another, there certainly must be some suspicions.
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If you have a hundred friends, throw out ninety-nine and beware of the other.
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YOU CAN THINK OF yourself as a Bedouin, believe you are one, and try to live like one. A few of that breed known as the desert rat manage to survive for a time, but if you’re not born here, the desert will eventually suck you dry.
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‘I do not understand what kind of idiotic press it is that is not operated by a royal family or the government.’
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‘It required teamwork. Teamwork requires trust. There is no trust among us. We pride ourselves on our potency. In truth, we are impotent.’
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As for me... if you love someone, as I loved her, then her happiness became more important to me than killing the man or the men who were making her happy.