A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
KHALED HOSSEINIA man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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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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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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There is a way to be good again.
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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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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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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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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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