The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
KHALED HOSSEINII 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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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