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“How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“ما أحلى الحياة حين تكون الامتحانات معضلتها الكبرى! بعد ذلك تتعقد الأمور”
― الحفيدة الأميركية
― الحفيدة الأميركية
“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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