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“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves.”
― Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
― Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
Jacqi’s 2025 Year in Books
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