Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
KHALED HOSSEINIAs far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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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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