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The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life.

— Mohammed Naseehu Ali

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Nothing brings a story to life, nothing makes a reader relate to a character, nothing makes a story’s universe believable and almost true-to-life more than the language of the narrator and the characters.

I was aware that my daring escape had made Uncle look like a fool, and I knew that from that evening on I would be in the crosshairs of his vengeance.

Even though we know he is crazy, you shouldn’t have had him saying all those things about us and Islam,” completely ignoring the fact that we are still talking about a work of fiction.

.if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.

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