Benjamin Dornel

“Nationalism: a state of mind in which you do not love your own country as much as you hate somebody else’s .”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair

“What does nostalgia mean to a child? An abstraction. A standing stone waiting for them in the mist. Walk a path across some decades, any path you like, and the word will gather weight. It will come to you trailing maybes and might-have-beens. Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts—and that it’s a blade we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― Mark Lawrence