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Orientalism
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To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.
“Well, the day has come when a woman’s weapons prove your daydreams wrong! Still, you carry no mean fame to your fathers’ shades— just tell them this: You died by Camilla’s spear!”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“In the middle of an animated conversation, she had mentioned a recent arrest that caused controversy in Algiers. A young office worker had killed an Arab on a beach.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Decked in the spoils you stripped from one I loved—escape my clutches? Never— Pallas strikes this blow, Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood!”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“do the gods light this fire in our hearts 220 or does each man’s mad desire become his god?”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling— no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
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