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“Arabic equals Sanskrit plus history, equals Greek minus tragedy”
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“Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
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“En un poema didáctico escrito por Abul Hasan Alí al-Bagdadí, las normas del aprendizaje de la escritura nos recuerdan las de los ejercicios de ascetismo con que el alquimista depura su alma: <>”
― Córdoba de los Omeyas
― Córdoba de los Omeyas
“Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.”
― The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
― The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality”
― The Mimic Men
― The Mimic Men
Around the World in 80 Books
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Read a book from each country
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