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Based on a true story from the Algerian War in the 1950s, this book explores the blurred lines between activist/freedom fighter/terrorist and examines the French justice system at a time when it was perhaps at its most cruel. It's a dual timeline, whi ...more |
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Everyone should read this book. It's so easy to gloss over headlines of suffering elsewhere in the world, assuming the UN will fix things. What happens when the UN and the EU are the problem? Who solves that? (Or the USA or any major Western power?) I ...more |
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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