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“Hsbd-iryt, the original colour of the sky—the legendary blue used by the Egyptians to adorn the skin of their gods. Passed down across the centuries, closely guarded by the priests of Egypt as part of their divine covenant, its formula was stolen by a Greek thief and lost forever after the fall of the Roman Empire.”
― Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

“How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szechwan

“Let time be the judge. Time is just, but only in the long term—not in the short term. The time we won’t live to see, which will be free of our prejudices.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts