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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

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Nizar Qabbani
Age: 75 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 21
Died: 1998
Died: April 30
Diplomat
Poet
Writer
Sham city
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani
Stop
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Someone
Without
Life
Differently
Losing
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We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
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The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory
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Dive into the sea, or stay away
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We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
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And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.
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My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern me anymore. For whoever writes about her concerns. in the logic of Men is called a stupid woman. and didn't I tell you in the beginning that I am a stupid woman?
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Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.
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And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.
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O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.
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Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
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Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.
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We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.
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It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.
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We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
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never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
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Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
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