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Quotes by Afghan Authors

"I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle."
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Khaled Hosseini
"I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle."
"A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose."
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Khaled Hosseini
"A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose."
"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."
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Khaled Hosseini
"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."
"If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away."
"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."
"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."
"When you are successful every day, success loses its value."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"When you are successful every day, success loses its value."
"Home is where you feel loved, and homeland is where you love."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Home is where you feel loved, and homeland is where you love."
"Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist."
"The reason why a man cannot stop staring at a woman ass is only because God has spent 80 percent of his time and efforts on woman ass and 20 percent on her entire body."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"The reason why a man cannot stop staring at a woman ass is only because God has spent 80 percent of his time and efforts on woman ass and 20 percent on her entire body."
"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."
"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
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Khaled Hosseini
"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
"When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all."
"I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again."
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Khaled Hosseini
"I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again."
"Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!"
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Khaled Hosseini
"Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!"
"Most people inherit success and fame, if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Most people inherit success and fame, if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is."
"There is a lot to learn about love and positions."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"There is a lot to learn about love and positions."
"Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and devote yourself for a fake love to prove it the most real one."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and devote yourself for a fake love to prove it the most real one."
"Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds."
"I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart."
"I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered."
"If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern."
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
"I can't dream anymore, we are better separated than together; both struggling unstoppable for our dreams."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"I can't dream anymore, we are better separated than together; both struggling unstoppable for our dreams."
"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."
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Khaled Hosseini
"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."
"I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."
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Khaled Hosseini
"I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."
"To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things."
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Khaled Hosseini
"To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things."
"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."
"God had conceived humans' heterosexuals, until they start making initiatives."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"God had conceived humans' heterosexuals, until they start making initiatives."
"Nothing is more important than living an important life."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Nothing is more important than living an important life."
"It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all."
"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."
"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
"Your little kindness made the whole world my enemy, but I am not scared."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Your little kindness made the whole world my enemy, but I am not scared."
"There are only do and don't, can or can't is just an excuse."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"There are only do and don't, can or can't is just an excuse."
"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."
"Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve."
"You can either choose a beautiful to fuck, which everyone fucks, or choose to fuck an ugly one, which no one fucks."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"You can either choose a beautiful to fuck, which everyone fucks, or choose to fuck an ugly one, which no one fucks."
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
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Khaled Hosseini
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
"A soldier is not always just a soldier."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"A soldier is not always just a soldier."
"I can't blame you!You really have no idea, how important you are How elegant you look and how sweet is your smile Everyone can smell you, from thousands kilometers awayThey can feel like the hungry wolvesHow delicious you are And they can see you from far planets Mars and Jupiter Like the owls with big eyes They know you are not human Because no one have seen a creature With such beauty and prettiness I haven't seen angels But I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are Even beauty by nature has its limits But I have to confess there is no limit in yours."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"I can't blame you!You really have no idea, how important you are How elegant you look and how sweet is your smile Everyone can smell you, from thousands kilometers awayThey can feel like the hungry wolvesHow delicious you are And they can see you from far planets Mars and Jupiter Like the owls with big eyes They know you are not human Because no one have seen a creature With such beauty and prettiness I haven't seen angels But I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are Even beauty by nature has its limits But I have to confess there is no limit in yours."
"Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity."
"She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me."
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Khaled Hosseini
"She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me."
"You can't chain your heart forever, one day or another you are going to open it for someone and (s)he is going to piss inside it."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"You can't chain your heart forever, one day or another you are going to open it for someone and (s)he is going to piss inside it."
"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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Khaled Hosseini
"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."
"Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst homosexuality is the freedom of enjoyment and pleasure from any means and ends."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst homosexuality is the freedom of enjoyment and pleasure from any means and ends."
"Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights."
"Once our family was very small and we used to say, ''our planet has enough resources to feed all of us'' but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess ''our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore''."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"Once our family was very small and we used to say, ''our planet has enough resources to feed all of us'' but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess ''our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore''."
"It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you."
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M.F. Moonzajer
"It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you."
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