Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
KHALED HOSSEINIHe 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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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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Some stories don’t need telling.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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