Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINIPeople say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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