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Yasmina Khadra Quotes

Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .

✵ 10. January 1955
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Works

What the Day Owes the Night
Yasmina Khadra: 7 quotes1 like

Famous Yasmina Khadra Quotes

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

Yasmina Khadra

Source: Swallows of Kabul

“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 book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“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

Source: Swallows of Kabul

“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 book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

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

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

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

Yasmina Khadra

Source: The Attack

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

Yasmina Khadra

Source: The Attack

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