| I can hardly entrust you with a secret before you spread it to everyone like wildfire | And though they were both coveted for their innumerable contributions to Arabic linguistics and culture, there were others who claimed their fame through some heavy use of anger |
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| And though most of your memories of Arabic literature back in school may be grim and nightmare-inducing, folk back then used to put in a lot of effort when it came to fucking with each other, perhaps for a lack of better things to do | We honestly don't know how Ikram came to us |
Most of my friends parents and even mine.
3| They had very little shame, and the thought of them expending clean water to douse a fire was absurd | We just found him there at the office one day and lived with it |
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| Yet I see a face deformed profusely by God, for it is as ugly as a face can be, and so ugly is its bearer | Your wretched life leaves none to compare, and your death may very well be a blessing to the kind |
For if he was to tighten it even further, he would choose to breathe out of one nostril.
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