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“The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Reason is the slave of passion.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I’ve been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.”
― American Dervish
― American Dervish
“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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