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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Khaled Hosseini

War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity
True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Goodness Guilty Leadership Transformation True
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Bone Cruelty Dreams Hope Learning Mad Skin World
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Fiction Greatness Lying Truth Writing
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Freedom Goodness Love Money Poor Price Suffering Yourself
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Eyes Feeling Gratitude Happiness Hope Tears Trick Water
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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Herself Justice Need
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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Change Different Life Myself Open Talk
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
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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Culture End Home Identity Key Language Legal Room Yourself

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

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