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.
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, disappoint… - Yasmina Khadra
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, disappoint…
- Yasmina Khadra
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 mor… - Yasmina Khadra
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 mor…
You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little. - Yasmina Khadra
You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.
Culture is always about politics in the end. - Yasmina Khadra
Culture is always about politics in the end.
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 … - Yasmina Khadra
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 …
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
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
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 i… - Yasmina Khadra
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 i…
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,… - Yasmina Khadra
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,…
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives. - Yasmina Khadra
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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