We expect an exchange of opinions to take place and hope that nobody will put forward any conditions.

We are satisfied with the meeting with the mufti. We were able to exchange constructive opinions. The conversation was positive on all sides.

They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experiences regarding the truce that were not encouraging.

I say enough to the truce.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.