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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is a way to be good again...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: inspirational
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: guilt
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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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
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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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
    “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
    “You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
    ― 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
    “This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Maktub" (It is written.)”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
    tags: brain, intellect, sherlock-holmes
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  • #30
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: women
    502 likes



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