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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” — José Saramago
A quote of this 1998 Nobel Prize winner that makes the commoner read it and say, “I already knew that” and the wiser one wonder for hours and ink pages after pages while going over it.
We all come to life, get a name, live and grow up. Some live long while others don’t. Some go to school or maybe not, some become doctors, lawyers, farmers or soldiers or maybe not. A few become leaders while others follow. Some succeed, other don’t, but we all get to do something, even those who just lie under a tree and wait for the fruits to fall down.
We all age, change, suffer the years, get wrinkles and die. But “that something that has no name,” that something that we are, never changes, and rain or shine we remain what we are from the day we are born till the day we die.
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This article originally appeared on Jean Marie Kassab