Some stories don’t need telling.
KHALED HOSSEINIIt may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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You 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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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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