Prayer

 "When I went up on stage, audience used to talk to each other, never bothered to look at me. I used to close my eyes and say to myself: 'Help me, God, to take the stage in a beautiful place, where everyone would watch and applause me'" -  Didem, belly dancer, on her pre-fame struggle


I am an atheist. Perhaps I should reconsider.
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"Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair 
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