In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
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Life eats life to live.
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.
When all is lost, there is still a memory.
I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?""That is so.""Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way."Poirot shrugged his shou
The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and concept. Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of civilization, the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man (insan adabi) and society.
Oblivion cures the old wounds.
To understand possible means to understand impossible.
If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.