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“Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“How odd it would be to call Homer’s Iliad or Rumi’s Masnavi “the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Money had them under a spell. Once they spent the money on a problem, they never thought about it again.”
― Fresh Off the Boat
― Fresh Off the Boat
“Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning roads, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indetations, scrolls.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
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93 books
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