Top 39 Yasmina Khadra Quotes
#1. Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
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#2. A brute is still a brute, even when smiles; the eyes are where the soul declares its true nature.
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#4. We are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us ...
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#5. It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.
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#6. A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on earth is the right to live ...
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#7. The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.
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#8. Even though I was growing up in a land that had been tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield.
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#9. Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age.
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#10. If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.
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#11. When you can't find a remedy for your pain, you look for someone to blame.
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#12. You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you ... I die a little.
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#13. If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love ... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous ... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
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#14. Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
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#15. In the final analysis,power is a misunderstanding: you think you know then you realize you have made a thumping mistake.
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#16. I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.
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#17. You're living through the only moments that make life worthwhile ... In love, even beasts become divine.
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#18. We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves
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#19. And yet we were very much alike; we'd lost our souls, and we were ready to destroy others.
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#20. You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
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#21. Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
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#22. I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.
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#24. Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
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#25. The one, true unique beauty is woman. The rest, all the rest, exists simply to adorn her.
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#26. Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?
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#27. It wasnt fair..
3 days away from the beginning of the harvest,
2 days away from salvation,
a breath away from redemption.
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#28. Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred ... .
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#29. As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it.
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#30. I saved my soul, replied my father
For this, firstly, you should have one, old man
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#31. For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
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#32. Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying.
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#33. Misery is a dead end that stops at a brick wall. If you want to escape it, you must back out carefully, never taking your eyes off the wall. That way, it looks as though the wall is receding.
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#34. The can take everything you own- your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.
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#35. We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.
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#36. The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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#37. I hate wars and revoloutions and these dramas of redemptive violence that turn upon themselves like endlessly long screws and haul entire generations through the same murderous absurdities, apparently without ERROR signals going off in anybody's head.
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#38. Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.
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#39. Sunset, springtime, the blue of the sea, the stars in the sky, all the things that entrance us exert their magic only in the orbit if woman.
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