Yasmina Khadra Quotes

• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Love, Soulmate, Regret

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• Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Music Is, Breaths

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• Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Understanding, Unhappiness, Architect

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• Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Drama, Fall, Mean

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• Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jumping, Life Is Like, Watches

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jealous, Heart, Want

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• You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

  Yasmina Khadra

  World, Littles, Dies

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

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• There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

  Yasmina Khadra

  People, Important, Absolutely Nothing

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Long Ago, Long, Forgotten

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• We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

  Yasmina Khadra

  Silence, Together, Fine

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

  Yasmina Khadra

  About Yourself, Mankind, Knows

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• Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Beautiful, Dream, Morality

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• Culture is always about politics in the end.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Culture, Ends

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Home, Ideas, Different

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Men, Land, Decay

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Party, Agreement, Cells

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• 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.

  Yasmina Khadra

  World, Earth, Ifs

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