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Alice Childress
“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
Alice Childress

Jacques Le Goff
“Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.”
Jacques Le Goff, The Medieval Imagination

Yasunari Kawabata
“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

Vladimir Nabokov
“We are confronted by an interesting phenomenon: a literary hero losing gradually contact with the book that bore him; leaving his fatherland, leaving his creator’s desk and roaming space after roaming Spain. In result, Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes’s womb. He has ridden for three hundred and fifty years through the jungles and tundras of human thought—and he has gained in vitality and stature. We do not laugh at him any longer. His blazon is pity, his banner is beauty. He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote

Herodotus
“After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.”
Herodotus
tags: peace, war

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