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“If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.” quote by André Gide — Download Open image

““If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.””

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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