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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.

Khaled Hosseini

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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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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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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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There is a way to be good again.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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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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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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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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