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“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”
― Italo Calvino

tags: city, memory

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“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

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“Is birth always a fall?”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

tags: memory, truth

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