Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed · 2013

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Beauty Randomness Good luck

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Khaled Hosseini

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Hosseini, Khaled. And The Mountains Echoed. Riverhead Books, 2013.

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