Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINISome stories don’t need telling.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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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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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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