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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: education, marriage
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: anticipation
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “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.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “You changed the subject."
    "From what?"
    "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
    "You know."
    "Know what?"
    "That I only have eyes for you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: hope, love
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    tags: time
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    Anthony Doerr
    “You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “What the war did to dreamers.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    tags: dream, dreamer, war
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93372 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #27
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    76267 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
    20112 likes



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