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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.

Khaled Hosseini

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Choice Freedom Kind Love Small Stay Yourself
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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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Eyes People Soul Window
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Book Children Color Deep Parents Teaching Yourself
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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Books Feeling Learning See Teaching Yourself
You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Be Yourself Stop
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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Action Life Ourselves Time Understand
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Bloom Fade Flower Live Spring
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Happiness Love Myself Time
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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Change Improvement Internet Invention Joke Laughter Old War
But then it passed, as all things do.
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One Liner Pass Time Wisdom
True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Goodness Guilty Leadership Transformation True
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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Brave Country Ourselves Pretty Ruin Story Strength
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Children Deep Fair Father Husband Kill Life Lying Man Right Spiritual Theft Truth Wife Yourself
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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Choice Decision Hope Moral Oneself People Right Yourself
Years 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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English Existence Learning Word

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