❤️Mohabbat⭐ Featured
❝Even if it's resentment, come just to hurt my heart,
come, even if only to leave me once more and depart.❞
come, even if only to leave me once more and depart.❞
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1931–2008📍 Kohat, NWFP
Ahmad Faraz
احمد فراز
Romantic Ghazal
89Shayaris
12Categories
1904.4kTotal Likes
5404kTotal Views
📖 About the Poet
Ahmad Faraz was a Pakistani Urdu poet known for his romantic ghazals and political poetry. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by Pakistan and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz. His romantic ghazals are among the most sung compositions in South Asian music.
📚 Famous Works
Tanha TanhaNayabSh'er-e-Sar-SarBiyaban
✨ Famous Couplet
"रंजिश ही सही, दिल ही दुखाने के लिए आ"— Ahmad Faraz
✍️ Shayaris by Ahmad Faraz(89)
❝Every moment with you is like paradise
Without you this world is desolate❞
Without you this world is desolate❞
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🔗❝Now that we part, perhaps we shall meet in dreams
Like dried flowers found pressed between the pages of books❞
Like dried flowers found pressed between the pages of books❞
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🔗❝Your silence too has a great voice
One glance of yours says a great deal❞
One glance of yours says a great deal❞
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🔗❝An entire lifetime has passed in longing for you
Now this desire itself is my identity❞
Now this desire itself is my identity❞
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🔗❝May it happen someday that you come close to me
And I see my home in your eyes❞
And I see my home in your eyes❞
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🔗❝I have just this one complaint against life
you came to me much too late❞
you came to me much too late❞
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🔗❝The pain felt after parting from them
That pain too became dear to me❞
That pain too became dear to me❞
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🔗❝Even after you left, the chain of your memories continues
Like seasons change but the sky remains the same❞
Like seasons change but the sky remains the same❞
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🔗❝Before we turn unfaithful to one another
Why not part now, my friend, while we still can❞
Why not part now, my friend, while we still can❞
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🔗❝If we part now, perhaps we'll meet someday in dreams
Like dried flowers found pressed between the pages of books❞
Like dried flowers found pressed between the pages of books❞
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🔗❝Come even in anger, come just to hurt my heart
Come again, even if only to leave me once more❞
Come again, even if only to leave me once more❞
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🔗❝Come even if just to grieve me
Come again, if only to leave me once more❞
Come again, if only to leave me once more❞
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🔗❝If I find you, destiny would change
For now, destiny holds only your wait❞
For now, destiny holds only your wait❞
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🔗❝Come if only to hurt my heart with bitterness
Come again, just to leave me once more❞
Come again, just to leave me once more❞
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🔗❝If we part this time, then perhaps,
We shall meet in dreams.❞
We shall meet in dreams.❞
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🔗❝If we part this time, perhaps we'll meet again in dreams,
the way dried flowers are found in books, pressed between the seams.❞
the way dried flowers are found in books, pressed between the seams.❞
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🔗❝Just to give myself some comfort, Faraz,
I chose to believe every single word she said❞
I chose to believe every single word she said❞
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🔗❝Ahmad Faraz wept a great deal late in the night
Her memory returned after a long, long night❞
Her memory returned after a long, long night❞
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🔗❝Granted, we could not turn this earth into a garden,
but wherever we passed, we lessened at least a few thorns❞
but wherever we passed, we lessened at least a few thorns❞
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🔗❝If we part now, we may meet only in dreams
Like dried flowers found pressed within old books❞
Like dried flowers found pressed within old books❞
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🔗❝I've heard people gaze at her to their heart's content,
so I linger a few days in her city, to see what that meant.❞
so I linger a few days in her city, to see what that meant.❞
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🔗❝Even if it's spite, come just to hurt my heart,
come again, come only to leave me apart,
keep some illusion of my love's pride at least,
come, just once, to console me from the start❞
come again, come only to leave me apart,
keep some illusion of my love's pride at least,
come, just once, to console me from the start❞
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🔗💕Romantic⭐ Featured
❝One smile of yours is all it takes,
to wash away every sorrow of mine.
One glance from your eyes is all it takes,
to show me why I live and shine.❞
to wash away every sorrow of mine.
One glance from your eyes is all it takes,
to show me why I live and shine.❞
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🔗❝Come, even if it be in spite — come to hurt this heart,
come once more just to leave me and depart.❞
come once more just to leave me and depart.❞
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🔗❝I hear people gaze at her to their heart's content,
so I too pass by her way, just to look once more.❞
so I too pass by her way, just to look once more.❞
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🔗❝If it is only your pride that stands in the way
Come, let me be the one to offer my hand in friendship❞
Come, let me be the one to offer my hand in friendship❞
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🔗❝Even waiting for you
Is a form of worship for me❞
Is a form of worship for me❞
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🔗❝I've heard people gaze at her to their heart's content,
so I too shall stay a few days in her city and see.❞
so I too shall stay a few days in her city and see.❞
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🔗❝I admit I am not worthy of your sight
But look at my longing, look at my endless waiting❞
But look at my longing, look at my endless waiting❞
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🔗❝When I found you in love
I found the purpose of my life❞
I found the purpose of my life❞
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🔗❝What your eyes say
Your lips never said❞
Your lips never said❞
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🔗❝Come, if only to hurt me, come even in anger,
Come to leave me again, but come, my beloved.❞
Come to leave me again, but come, my beloved.❞
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🔗❝I've heard people gaze at her to their heart's content
so I'll stay a few days in her city, just to see for myself❞
so I'll stay a few days in her city, just to see for myself❞
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🔗❝When you left, the heart broke into pieces —
but I gathered myself and rose once more.
In love I never learned how to give up —
I have learned to live without you too at the core.❞
but I gathered myself and rose once more.
In love I never learned how to give up —
I have learned to live without you too at the core.❞
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🔗❝You, Faraz, mistake mere formality for sincerity
Not everyone who shakes your hand is truly a friend❞
Not everyone who shakes your hand is truly a friend❞
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🔗❝I have just this one complaint against life —
you came to me much too late.❞
you came to me much too late.❞
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🔗❝The pain of separation is very deep
What we had found we have now lost❞
What we had found we have now lost❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝Come even in anger, if only to hurt my heart —
come again, if only to leave me once more.
If not the old intimacy — still, come sometime —
there is still custom and courtesy left to observe.❞
come again, if only to leave me once more.
If not the old intimacy — still, come sometime —
there is still custom and courtesy left to observe.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝Come, if only to hurt this heart once more,
Come, if only to leave me again as before.
At least maintain the illusion of my love's pride —
If you won't come, at least feign reason and guide.❞
Come, if only to leave me again as before.
At least maintain the illusion of my love's pride —
If you won't come, at least feign reason and guide.❞
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🔗❝I've heard people gaze at her to their heart's content
So I too am searching for just one glance from her❞
So I too am searching for just one glance from her❞
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🔗❝To repay the debt of your love is impossible,
what you have given me is beyond all price.
In every breath of mine lives your name,
this love is more precious than paradise.❞
what you have given me is beyond all price.
In every breath of mine lives your name,
this love is more precious than paradise.❞
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🔗❝Whether you meet me or not — that is your choice,
but I will keep remembering you always.
I live in the company of your memories —
as long as I live I will keep calling your name.❞
but I will keep remembering you always.
I live in the company of your memories —
as long as I live I will keep calling your name.❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝If we part now, perhaps we'll meet again in dreams
like dried flowers meeting between the pages of books❞
like dried flowers meeting between the pages of books❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝Even if in anger — come and then leave me,
at least have that much regard for my heart.
Your separation will always be remembered —
but the heart also wants — just one meeting more.❞
at least have that much regard for my heart.
Your separation will always be remembered —
but the heart also wants — just one meeting more.❞
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🔗❝The pain of separation is such
As if soul has been separated from soul❞
As if soul has been separated from soul❞
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🔗❝I have heard people look at her with eyes full of wonder —
so I stay a few days in her city just to see.❞
so I stay a few days in her city just to see.❞
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🔗❝When I draw closer to you,
my heartbeat quickens its pace.
When I hear your voice,
the world becomes a more beautiful place.❞
my heartbeat quickens its pace.
When I hear your voice,
the world becomes a more beautiful place.❞
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🔗❝I hear people look at her with eyes full of wonder —
so I stay a few days in her city just to see.❞
so I stay a few days in her city just to see.❞
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🔗❤️Mohabbat⭐ Featured
❝Even if it's bitterness, come to hurt my heart,
Come again to leave me and depart.❞
Come again to leave me and depart.❞
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🔗❝I have heard that people watch her with eyes full of love,
So in her city let me stay a few days and see.❞
So in her city let me stay a few days and see.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Now that we part, perhaps we'll meet in dreams some night,
Just as dried flowers are found in books pressed tight.
Seek the pearls of loyalty among the broken and forlorn,
These treasures you shall find in the desolate and torn.❞
Just as dried flowers are found in books pressed tight.
Seek the pearls of loyalty among the broken and forlorn,
These treasures you shall find in the desolate and torn.❞
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🔗❝Your sorrow sought a life to consume — we became its victim,
Your faithfulness needed to be tested — we became the test.❞
Your faithfulness needed to be tested — we became the test.❞
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🔗❝If we part this time, perhaps we shall meet in dreams someday,
Like pressed and dried flowers found between the pages of old books.❞
Like pressed and dried flowers found between the pages of old books.❞
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🔗❝I tried to forget you but could not —
I could not shake free of your memory.
Every night you come in my dreams —
morning the eyes open and there is pain.❞
I could not shake free of your memory.
Every night you come in my dreams —
morning the eyes open and there is pain.❞
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🔗❝That moment of our first meeting,
still beats inside this chest of mine.
The first time my eyes fell on you,
my heart felt something undefined.❞
still beats inside this chest of mine.
The first time my eyes fell on you,
my heart felt something undefined.❞
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🔗❝Come even in anger, if only to hurt my heart —
come again, if only to leave me once more.❞
come again, if only to leave me once more.❞
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🔗❝Hearing your footsteps, my heart kept beating,
So deeply I was waiting for you.❞
So deeply I was waiting for you.❞
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🔗❝You didn't come — no matter, dreams kept coming,
I kept living in your city as your guest.❞
I kept living in your city as your guest.❞
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🔗❤️Mohabbat⭐ Featured
❝If we part now, perhaps we'll meet someday in dreams,
The way dried flowers are found pressed in old books, it seems.❞
The way dried flowers are found pressed in old books, it seems.❞
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🔗❝When pain crosses its limit,
it becomes its own medicine.
The person who breaks apart and scatters —
that very one reassembles and becomes beautiful.❞
it becomes its own medicine.
The person who breaks apart and scatters —
that very one reassembles and becomes beautiful.❞
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🔗❝I was counting the world's sorrows —
today you were remembered, beyond all counting.❞
today you were remembered, beyond all counting.❞
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🔗❝What is wrong with weeping in your memory?
The heart wants to keep weeping and you to keep coming.
Without you, living through these nights is hard —
Whether you come or not — may this heart keep beating.❞
The heart wants to keep weeping and you to keep coming.
Without you, living through these nights is hard —
Whether you come or not — may this heart keep beating.❞
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🔗❝Listen — what is your legend in this world?
What does the creation of God say about you in your absence?
With you in my gaze, everything is light —
Without you, life is merely an excuse.❞
What does the creation of God say about you in your absence?
With you in my gaze, everything is light —
Without you, life is merely an excuse.❞
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🔗💕Romantic⭐ Featured
❝Listen — no one has seen you better than I have ever done,
I have seen you deeper than any mirror under the sun.
The colours in your eyes are all meant for me,
The pain in your smile is all meant for me.❞
I have seen you deeper than any mirror under the sun.
The colours in your eyes are all meant for me,
The pain in your smile is all meant for me.❞
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🔗😎Attitude⭐ Featured
❝Those who meet with downcast eyes averted low,
I do not recognize them as I go.
I make friends with those who look me in the eye,
And speak to me directly, face to face, not shy.❞
I do not recognize them as I go.
I make friends with those who look me in the eye,
And speak to me directly, face to face, not shy.❞
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🔗❝Come even if in anger, to hurt my heart,
Come again even to leave — just come.❞
Come again even to leave — just come.❞
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🔗❝The heartless finally understood what life really contains,
The heart never found the beloved it craved in its veins.
This life is a journey, O Faraz my friend,
Whoever we met on the road asked us to pause till the end.❞
The heart never found the beloved it craved in its veins.
This life is a journey, O Faraz my friend,
Whoever we met on the road asked us to pause till the end.❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝She departed from me, yes she did depart,
But from her memory I never could part.
There is a wound in my heart that will not heal,
I speak her name until the pain I no longer feel.❞
But from her memory I never could part.
There is a wound in my heart that will not heal,
I speak her name until the pain I no longer feel.❞
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🔗💕Romantic⭐ Featured
❝I want to drown in the depths of your eyes,
I want to lose myself in your embrace's ties.
Indifferent to everything the world contains,
I only want to stay near you, that remains.❞
I want to lose myself in your embrace's ties.
Indifferent to everything the world contains,
I only want to stay near you, that remains.❞
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🔗❝Don't look at me like that or I'll scatter apart,
I'm already broken — I can't break once more in heart.
I cannot bear the gaze of your eyes, O Faraz,
How much longer can I protect this wounded heart?❞
I'm already broken — I can't break once more in heart.
I cannot bear the gaze of your eyes, O Faraz,
How much longer can I protect this wounded heart?❞
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🔗❝Life is an exam, give it with patience and grace,
God rewards only those who endure the test's pace.❞
God rewards only those who endure the test's pace.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Now that we part, perhaps we'll meet in dreams someday,
Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
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🔗❝You dwell in my heart to such a degree,
Like oxygen within the breath I breathe so free.
How can I live without you here beside,
You are the peace in which my life can hide.❞
Like oxygen within the breath I breathe so free.
How can I live without you here beside,
You are the peace in which my life can hide.❞
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🔗❤️Mohabbat⭐ Featured
❝Even in bitterness, come to break my heart once more,
Come again, if only to leave as before.❞
Come again, if only to leave as before.❞
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🔗❝The heart beats for you, the eyes search only for you.
Without you in this world, nothing at all seems pleasing.❞
Without you in this world, nothing at all seems pleasing.❞
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🔗❝When the heart breaks, there is no sound,
Only a silence settles all around.❞
Only a silence settles all around.❞
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🔗❝In trying to forget you, I remembered you more,
This was my mistake, this is my only fault and core.❞
This was my mistake, this is my only fault and core.❞
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🔗❝Having seen you, I've come to understand,
Even pain can be beautiful, after seeing you.❞
Even pain can be beautiful, after seeing you.❞
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🔗❝I've heard people gaze at her with full eyes,
So I'll stay a few days in her city to see.❞
So I'll stay a few days in her city to see.❞
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🔗❝Surely I must come to your memory sometimes, surely I must touch your heart.
But whether you remember me or not — I don't have the courage to find out.❞
But whether you remember me or not — I don't have the courage to find out.❞
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🔗❝With you every night the moon seems larger, every day brighter.
Seeing you, the heart is convinced that God has shown great kindness.❞
Seeing you, the heart is convinced that God has shown great kindness.❞
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🔗❝Don't look at me the way one looks in a mirror.
I am the one who loves — not the image that is shown.❞
I am the one who loves — not the image that is shown.❞
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🔗❝Those moments that have passed will not return.
What was left behind on the path will not be found again.❞
What was left behind on the path will not be found again.❞
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🔗❝To live in the heart, live like Ghalib; if you must weep, weep like Mir.
If you must live, live like Faiz; if you must die, die like love.❞
If you must live, live like Faiz; if you must die, die like love.❞
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🔗❝Ghazal is the interpreter of my pain, the identity of my love.
What is in the heart doesn't come to the tongue — but in ghazal all is expressed.❞
What is in the heart doesn't come to the tongue — but in ghazal all is expressed.❞
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🔗❝I write the ghazal for those who cannot read,
I speak the pain of those who cannot speak.❞
I speak the pain of those who cannot speak.❞
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🔗❝Now I try to forget them — but forgetting is not so easy.
What has settled deep in the heart is not easy to remove.❞
What has settled deep in the heart is not easy to remove.❞
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🔗❝We fight only with ourselves and lose only to ourselves.
We have no enemy outside — we ourselves keep hurting ourselves.❞
We have no enemy outside — we ourselves keep hurting ourselves.❞
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