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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.

Khaled Hosseini

War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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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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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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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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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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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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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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