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“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
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“We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible – the chestnut trees – how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
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“The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.”
― Precolonial Black Africa
― Precolonial Black Africa
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Leonie’s 2025 Year in Books
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