What was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it were your own? - Elif Şafak

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What was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it were your own?

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About 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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Alternative Names: Elif Shafak Elif Bilgin Shafaq
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أن الطريق إلى الحقيقة يمر من القلب، لا من الرأس فأجعل قلبك لا عقلك دليلك الرئيسي ، وجه .. تحد ,, وتغلب في نهاية المطاف على (النفس) بقلبك إن معرفتك بنفسك ستقودك إلى معرفة الله.

فالحب هو للذين يبحثون عن هدف أو سبب في هذا العالم الذي يجري بسرعة كبيرة ، لكم ماذا عن الذين تخلوا عن ذلك منذ أمد بعيد ؟

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Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of love, how can she not thirst for it? Once you have seen yourself through your beloved's eyes, you're not the same person any longer. I was blind all this time, and now that my eyes are open, i'm afraid of light. But i don't want to live like a mole. Not anymore.

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