Yasmina Khadra Quotes

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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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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

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

Yasmina Khadra

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

Yasmina Khadra

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