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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.

Khaled Hosseini

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
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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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
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
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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Choice Herself See Travel Walk Weakness
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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Ability Feeling Ocean Ourselves Path Person Present Thinking True Universe Walk World
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Goodness Heart Man Soul Suffering
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Deserve Goodness Happiness Life Myself
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Detail Greedy Theft Time
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Choice Freedom Kind Love Small Stay 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
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Action Deep Heart Punishment Understand
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

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