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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.
Never trust anyone, especially your best friend.
I believe they trusted me, but when one holds such a secret above another, there certainly must be some suspicions.
If you have a hundred friends, throw out ninety-nine and beware of the other.
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.
‘I do not understand what kind of idiotic press it is that is not operated by a royal family or the government.’
‘It required teamwork. Teamwork requires trust. There is no trust among us. We pride ourselves on our potency. In truth, we are impotent.’
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.