Tamer Goueli

“The Hittites will come for Egypt, and when your men are better builders than soldiers you will be sorry”
― Michelle Moran

“I believe, do you know, we never stop being what we were, young. We don't shed the young self, we just put on other skins, one cover after another, but somewhere in us is still the self we were before we fell, before we started covering ourselves. And all the rest of our lives, we're trying to go back, we're looking for it, what we lost.”
― Nick Joaquín, Cándido's Apocalypse

“An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.”
― Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects

“What does a great empire do when faced with imminent invasion and destruction? It can rearm at home and seek allies abroad; but more cunningly it can revisit its history to forge a myth that will unite the people and carry them through to victory, a myth that will demonstrate to everyone that their country has been specially chosen by history to uphold justice and righteousness.”
― Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects