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Quotes by Afghan Authors

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

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

"Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences."

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

"Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world, but we haven't found wealth on the road."

"It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom."

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

"I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!"

"If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation."

"She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."

"I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions."

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

"Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful."

"If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while."

"I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls."

"Rationality doesn't exist, right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair."

"Being best at things has nothing to do with talent, it is all about self - discipline and commitment."

"My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters."

"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."

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

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