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.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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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 opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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