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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
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“Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.”
― The Interpretation of Cultures
― The Interpretation of Cultures
“The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of a world at dusk. It was a daness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the past. The sorrow of the battlefield could not normally be pinpointed to one particular event, or even one person. If you focused on any one event it would soon become a tearing pain.”
― The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
― The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
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