Christina

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Freedom has no musts.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace