It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
KHALED HOSSEINIBeauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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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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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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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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