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57f6790
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I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.
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life-purpose
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Khaled Hosseini |
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850c6dc
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So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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672ad19
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But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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d06f797
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l'Tfl lysw ktban lltlwyn ymknk tlwynh b'lwnk lmfDl@
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Khaled Hosseini |
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d4b3c89
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Kalau kau membunuh seorang pria kau mencuri kehidupannya. Kau mencuri seorang suami dari istrinya, merampok seorang ayah dari anak-anaknya. Kalau kau menipu, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan kebenaran. Kalau kau berbuat curang, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan keadilan.
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the-kite-runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
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c6df9d1
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Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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9268d1c
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He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
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inspirational
reflection-on-life
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Khaled Hosseini |
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34a6085
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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. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an id..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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555db95
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Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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4831397
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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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580acae
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Mendimet me arratisen instiktivisht drejt teje.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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1f67bf9
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could not picture that Father had once swung on a swing. He could not imagine that Father had once been a boy, like him. A boy. Carefree, light on his feet. Running headlong into the open fields with his playmates. Father, whose hands were scarred, whose face was crosshatched with deep lines of weariness. Father, who might as well have been born with shovel in hand and mud under his nails.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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c8becfb
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Sebenarnya aku berusaha menjadi pengecut karena pilihan lainnya, alasan sebenarnya aku melarikan diri, adalah karena Assef mengatakan kebenaran: Tak ada yang gratis di dunia ini.
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the-kite-runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
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e837c10
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They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
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old-age
teenagers
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Khaled Hosseini |
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6380d73
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qlb lrjl mthyr ll'sy
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Khaled Hosseini |
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3625ca4
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mn byn kl lmshqt lty ywjhh lshkhS l shy' 'kthr `qban mn f`l lntZr
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Khaled Hosseini |
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fca4a41
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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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a66c59e
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That's how children deal with terror. They fall asleep.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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a42fa1c
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He was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he drained others of theirs.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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4df61b0
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Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. She thought ruefully of Nana, of the sacrifices that she too had made. Nana, who could have given her away, or tossed her in a ditch somewhere and run. But she hadn't. Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her. And, in the end, Mariam had chosen Jalil over her. As..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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99e82ec
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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593dc5f
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I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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35e89ed
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'stm` l~ dqt ls`@ fy lrdh@, thm 'fkr , fy kl ltkt wldqy'q , kl ls`t wl'ym, l'shhr wlsnwt lty tntZrny, klh bdwnhm, w`ndh l 'stTy` ltnfs, k'n shyy'an m ykhTw fy qlby... lqd 'SbHt D`yf@ jdan ,, wqd 'nhr fy 'y lHZ@ ...
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Khaled Hosseini |
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0125f2e
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all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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e4c983c
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I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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c24317a
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Tidak ada kata yang terucap, tidak ada yang perlu kami katakan, inilah harta yang dimiliki oleh mereka yang menyimpan kenangan yang sama, yang saling menjadi kenangan pertama, yang menyusu dari payudara yang sama.
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the-kite-runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
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38fb7e1
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Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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f28a596
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Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me."
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Khaled Hosseini |
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2ce3349
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Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.
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time
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Khaled Hosseini |
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f5b4816
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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896cbfa
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah. I am counting on you, boy, while your sister and I are away. So is your mother. Now. One story, then. Listen, both of you, listen well. And don't interrupt.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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3655520
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have lived a long time, Mr. Markos, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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05c2662
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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2f006c7
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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8619e27
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Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched then stealing.
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life-lessons
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Khaled Hosseini |
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799c333
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They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift
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purpose-of-life
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Khaled Hosseini |
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16a6fd4
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A ratos, cuando se volvia para sacudir la ceniza del cigarrillo en un platito, yo aprovechaba para mirar de soslayo las unas rojas de sus pies, el brillo dorado de las pantorrillas afeitadas, el pronunciado empeine y, siempre, los senos turgentes y perfectamente redondeados. Me maravillaba que en este mundo hubiese hombres que habian tocado y besado aquellos senos mientras le hacian el amor. ?Que mas se le podia pedir a la vida despues de a..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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11b9f17
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Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life, you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing. A man who takes what's not his to take, be it ..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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1caa1e1
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What shall I tell you of the years that ensued? You know well the recent history of this beleaguered country. I need not to rehash for you those dark days. I tire at the mere thought of writing it, and, besides, the suffering of this country has already been sufficiently chronicled, and by pens far more learned and eloquent than mine. I can sum it up in one word: war. Or rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, jus..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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57939dd
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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?" I blink and my mother blinks back, and then she is laughing and so am I. Even as I crumple inside."
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Khaled Hosseini |
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0100eae
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Titanic city" was born. It's the song, they said. No, the sea, the luxury, the ship. It's the sex, they whispered. Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It's all about Leo. "Everybody wants Jack," Laila said to Mariam. That's what it is. Everybody wants Jack to rescue them from disaster."
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Khaled Hosseini |
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e3f25fb
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yrGmwn l'wld `l~ lnDmm l~ lmjhdyn f~ wDH lnhr wtHt thdyd lslH, ysHbwnhm mn lshwr`. w`ndm ymskhm jnwd mylyshy m`dy@ y`dhbwnhm blkhrb wyntz`wn khSyWhm blkmsh@. yjbrwnhm `l~ 'n yqwdwnhm l~ mnzlhm. thm yqtHmwnh, yqtlwn lab wyGtSbwn l'khwt wl'mht
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Khaled Hosseini |
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de0981f
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When the Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they'd taken offence at the birds' long bare legs. After they'd tied the cousin's feet and flogged his soles bloody, they had presented him with a choice: Either destroy the paintings or make the flamingos decent. So the cousin had picked up his brush and painted trousers on every last bird. "And there you have it, Islamic flamingos," - "But he'll have the last laugh, the cousin," Tariq ..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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03fbf4f
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Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.
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Khaled Hosseini |