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.
KHALED HOSSEINIPeople say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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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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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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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