Micheál Breen
https://www.goodreads.com/mbreen
In just four decades—the blink of an eye, relatively speaking—Europe erupted. Around 1490, four decades before the Sack of Rome, Europe was a backwater. Paris, London, Barcelona, and Venice were all impressive enough locales by European
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“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“You take things you don’t control and define them as “good” or “bad.” And so of course when the “bad” things happen, or the “good” ones don’t, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible—or those you decide to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply those criteria. If we limited “good” and “bad” to our own actions, we’d have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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