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The childish egotism I had not yet outgrown flared up inside me in terrific jealousy. Children, after all, always resent their loved ones associating with outsiders.

— Chinghiz Aitmatov Jamilia (1958)

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How could someone like Osman know what’s in a person’s soul? Nobody knows. Maybe no man in the world knows what’s in a woman’s soul.

Jamilia (1958)

It seemed that when Jamilia left, my mother’s former strength left with her. She became stooped and haggard. Now I realize she could not accept someone breaking with tradition. If a storm uproots a mighty tree, the tree will never grow again.

Jamilia (1958)

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