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What an amazing book, and one-of-a-kind series.I'm enjoying these books so much, I'm very grateful for Riad Sattouf for writing them. ...more "
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What a fun book, such a pleasure to read.Silly, funny, beautiful, reminiscent of "The Arab of the Future". ...more "
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.”
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“There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the way of the world when the world is thrown into chaos. It is our job to avert that chaos, to fight against it, to resist the urge to become savage. Because the problem with such law is that if you follow it, you are always fighting against someone.”
― The Sweetness of Tears
― The Sweetness of Tears
“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.”
― Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
― Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
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