It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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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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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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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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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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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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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 think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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