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“A person's mind can't encompass all. One can't mourn statistics. I mourn for one.”
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“... love, like destiny, loves surprises ... ”
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“We can lie in the language of dress, or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald it is impossible to be silent.”
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“One half the world doesn't know how the other half lives, and is not especially worried on the subject.”
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“It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.”
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“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem — if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this. ”
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“The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.”
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“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”