There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
KHALED HOSSEINIThere is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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.
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It 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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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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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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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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