“I was thinking, no doubt, of our nights in bed, of the peculiar innocence and confidence which will never come again... nothing is more unbearable, once on has it, than freedom.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who cherished it as a safeguard against the evil of equal rights... but also among the traditionalist poor, who were profoundly convinced that they had a right to crumbs from the rich man's table.”
― The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
― The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
“The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”
― Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
― Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
“And the world had its first secular myth. Older readers or those in old-fashioned countries will know the Napoleonic myth as it existed throughout the century when no middleclass cabinet was complete without his bust, and pamphleteering wits could argue, even for a joke, that he was not a man but a sun-god.”
― The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
― The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
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