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Bassem Kaabeche
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“You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.”
― In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
― In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
“Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems.”
― Ecce Homo
― Ecce Homo
“what matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?”
― An American Tragedy
― An American Tragedy
“The woman, the more of a woman she is, fights tooth and nail against rights in general: after all, the natural state of things, the eternal war between the sexes, gives her the highest rank by far. — Did anyone have ears for my definition of love? It is the only one worthy of a philosopher. — Love — its method is warfare, its foundation is the deadly hatred between the sexes. — Did anyone hear my answer to the question of how to cure – ‘redeem’ – a woman? Give her a baby. Women need children, the man is only ever the means: thus spoke Zarathustra.”
― Ecce Homo
― Ecce Homo
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Biography, Chick-lit, Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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