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"I've heard so much about this book as the definitive historical account on the subject, but I'm already rolling my eyes. Alistair Thorne boasts about how he's the perfect person to write this history because of his neutrality on the issue as a British citizen. However, I'm seeing nothing but a sympathetic account for the French and a relatively drier account for the Algerians. This hasn't been a good start." — Dec 12, 2021 09:35AM
"I've heard so much about this book as the definitive historical account on the subject, but I'm already rolling my eyes. Alistair Thorne boasts about how he's the perfect person to write this history because of his neutrality on the issue as a British citizen. However, I'm seeing nothing but a sympathetic account for the French and a relatively drier account for the Algerians. This hasn't been a good start." — Dec 12, 2021 09:35AM
“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
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“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
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