But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a … - Khaled Hosseini

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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Khaled Hosseini

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

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You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

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