They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Simone De Beauvoir
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
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Nicholas Sparks
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
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Jules Renard
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too, " laughed the little old man. Said the little boy,...
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Shel Silverstein
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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P.g. Wodehouse
More Quotes By Khaled Hosseini
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them...
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
