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Khaled Hosseini

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Аноним5 февраля 2023 г.
Оказалось, у нас с отцом больше общего, чем я даже мог себе представить. Мы оба предали людей, которые были верны нам до гроба.
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Аноним5 февраля 2023 г.
Как великодушна ко мне судьба, подарившая такое счастье! Только вот заслуживаю ли я его?
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people’s lives. My whole life, I had been “Baba’s son.” Now he was gone. Baba couldn’t show me the way anymore; I’d have to find it on my own.
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
And in the end the question that always came back to me was this: How could I, of all people, chastise someone for their past?
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran – verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul – and asked for kindness from a God I wasn’t sure existed.
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
He picks up the kitchen knife with the long blade. The custom is to not let the sheep see the knife. Ali feeds the animal a cube of sugar – another custom, to make death sweeter. The sheep kicks, but not much. The mullah grabs it under its jaw and places the blade on its neck. Just a second before he slices the throat in one expert motion, I see the sheep’s eyes. It is a look that will haunt my dreams for weeks. I don’t know why I watch this yearly ritual in our backyard; my nightmares persist long after the bloodstains on the grass have faded. But I always watch. I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.
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Аноним21 января 2023 г.
The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
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Аноним11 января 2023 г.
Нельзя сразу плохо думать о людях, не разобравшись.
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Аноним11 ноября 2022 г.
Может быть, мы упрямые гордецы, но, если ты попал в беду, лучшего друга, чем пуштун, не найти.
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