Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
KHALED HOSSEINIEveryone 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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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There is a way to be good again.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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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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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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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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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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