But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINIYears later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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