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Book cover for Kashmir: Behind the Vale
History is more real than footnotes in small type which too often sound like an in-house conversation between willing conspirators.
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Khaled Hosseini
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Albert Camus
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
Albert Camus, The Fall

Albert Camus
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
Albert Camus, L'Étranger

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

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