It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd 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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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 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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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