“I am afraid to die sometimes, but God is the one to decide when a person dies. I want to live to the fullest until then.”

—  Ahmad Shah Massoud

As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura

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