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“There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.”
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”
“As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them”
“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”
“Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding toge...”
“The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.”
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“Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at ho...”
“In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.”
“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments...”
“A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arentt exploding into l...”
“Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness”
“Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.”
“...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand ones own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of ones own sn...”
“Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and w...”
“Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.”
“There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they ...”
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such l...”
