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"Still in the introduction but I’ve already learned so much." — 4 hours, 44 min ago
"Still in the introduction but I’ve already learned so much." — 4 hours, 44 min ago
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I am old, but I’ll still have enough strength, as long as it is needed, as long as you are a little green mango in need of an old mango tree.”
“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--”
― In the Eye of the Sun
― In the Eye of the Sun
“It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“[A]lthough guns, tanks, and bombs win wars, they don't win peace. Peace takes research, planning reconstruction, the secrets to which can be found in books.”
― Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
― Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
“It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.”
― The Map of Love
― The Map of Love
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