Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque
ibrahim al-koni
than any other.” “The Spirit World does not offer us its wisdom gratis. The Spirit World has given it to us on the understanding that we will pay the full retail price.” “But that ’s the cruelest possible price.” “We should trust no one.” “Tribes customarily teach this lesson to their children without understanding it.” “The phrase is brief, as you observed, but exposes our life to danger if we understand it too late.” “I don’t understand wisdom’s utility when understanding it too late is a precondition for it.” “True wisdom is only understood after it is too late.” “This is what’s worst about
the matter. This is what ’s worst about wisdom.” “But let’s drop the question of wisdom and search for the cure.” “The truth is that my only reason for approaching the sanctuary has been to search for a cure.” “My tongue may possibly reveal something that embarrasses me.” “I will give my lady everything I possess if my lady will show me the sun’s disc.” “My tongue may possibly reveal something that embarrasses me.” “I will give my lady everything. I will give her even the title ‘hero,’ which became part of me, if my lady can showme the sun for a single day, a single hour, or a single instant.”
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