And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
KHALED HOSSEINIHer impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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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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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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