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Quotes by Afghan Authors

"Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them."

"Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true."

"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel."

"I love the words, because they love me too."

"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."

"I do not know anything about 'all the good guys are taken' but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin."

"Sky and the stars and the sun, and the moon and the mountain and the rivers will smile, if you smile. Beasts and the brutes and the monsters and the birds, and the flowers, and the plants, will be kind if you are kind. Doomed and the hopeless and the condemned and the ruined and the miserable and the lost, will be happy if you are happy."

"In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success."

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

"Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight."

"We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance."

"You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much."

"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."

"I don't know what you dream, when you are everyone's dream."

"I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts."

"Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before."

"Build your life on your dreams, because dreams never have bad endings."

"Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences."

"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."

"You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words."

"Even the right is wrong from the other side."

"I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things."

"Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected."

"No matter how ugly you are, there is always someone who sees his heaven in your eyes."

"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."

"I will follow you to the ends of the world."

"When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn't give me that life."

"I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and me as a second set of parents, and I pray for your and our lovely Soraya jan's happiness. you both have our blessings."

"If you are waiting to gain power to do something, then there is no difference between you and an unborn child."
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