Mariany

“If I could imagine myself as God, I’d become him!”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“He was amazed beyond all else by the swarms of people. In contrast, the streets of Caesarea had been deserted. The author of the book of ben Sira, it occured to him, must have been thinking of scenes such as this when he wrote, "I am hidden among multitudes of men. What is my soul in their great numbers?”
― Milton Steinberg

“The paysans had no flags or written histories, but they expressed their local patriotism in much the same way as nations: by denigrating their neighbours and celebrating their own nobility.”
― Graham Robb, The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War