I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where there being en… - Elif Şafak
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I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where there being ends and someone else's starts. With there roots tangled and caught up underground, linked to fungi and bacteria, trees harbour no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected.
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Elif Şafak
Elif Shafak (born October 25, 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist.
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Elif Bilgin Shafaq
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توجد مرحلة تخذلنا اللغة بعدها عندما تدخلين إلى منطقة العشق فلن تكوني بحاجة إلى اللغة.
In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together.' 'Then there'd be no buildings left in the world,' Jahan ventured. 'Everything would be razed to the ground.' 'We are not destroying the buildings, son. We are destroying our desire to possess them. Only God is the owner. Of the stone and of the skill.
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