Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi

• Men
• Fear
• Die
• Unknown
• Forest
• Bullets

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• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Die