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“I don't think clarity is necessarily truth. It's simplicity, isn't it?”
― Anil's Ghost
― Anil's Ghost
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“You're an archaeologist. Truth comes finally into the light. It's in the bones and sediment.
It's in character and nuance and mood.
That is what governs us in our lives, that's not the truth.
For the living it is the truth.”
― Anil's Ghost
It's in character and nuance and mood.
That is what governs us in our lives, that's not the truth.
For the living it is the truth.”
― Anil's Ghost
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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