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But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.
he opened the black book and wrote: Name – My beautiful boy. Cause of death – This broken world. And that was very the last time Mustafa recorded the names of the dead. Exactly a week after this, Sami was killed.
‘You know, if we love something it will be taken away.’
People are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater good – I’ve come to realise this now.
“At this table have eaten a thousand kings blind in their right eye, and a thousand kings blind in their left eye, and a thousand kings blind in both eyes, all of whom have departed the world and have gone to tomb and catacomb.”
Every king who ever ruled this place was blind, in one way or another, so that they left it full of riches and devoid of life.’
Yuanfen was a mysterious force that causes two lives to cross paths in a meaningful way.
Through the window I watch the sky change colour,
things can change, that hope can prevail, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
‘This is the place where people die slowly, inside. One by one, people die.’
This was the city of recurring dreams, with no way of waking up: a string of nightmares.
Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.
