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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?


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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.



A screaming comes across the sky.

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The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.



It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.



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