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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

Khaled Hosseini

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Goodness Heart Man Soul Suffering
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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Brave Country Ourselves Pretty Ruin Story Strength
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
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Eyes People Soul Window
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Happiness Love Myself Time
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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Change Improvement Internet Invention Joke Laughter Old War
But then it passed, as all things do.
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One Liner Pass Time Wisdom
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
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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Choice Decision Hope Moral Oneself People Right Yourself
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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English Existence Learning Word
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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Count Herself Hide Love Moon Sun Wall Woman
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Meaning People Talk Thinking Worth
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.
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Creation Fingers Man Oppression Problem Thinking Woman World
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity
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
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

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

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