Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
KHALED HOSSEINIFor courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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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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