In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
KHALED HOSSEINIYou see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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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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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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