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Le voci di Marrakech: Note di un viaggio

by Elias Canetti

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May 27, 2026 08:06AM

“[C]olonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

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“Young man, sometimes in life there are a few sappy things one must say.”
“What?” Jin Ling asked.
”’Thank you’ and ‘I’m sorry’,” Wei Wuxian replied “there’ll come a day when you’ll say them through tears.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Light Novel 01: Wiedergeburt

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“To yearn unwittingly breaks the willow branch.”
― Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, 二哈和他的白貓師尊

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“A misunderstanding of one year is a misunderstanding.

A misunderstanding of ten years is an injustice.

A misunderstanding of a lifetime from life to death, is fate.

Their fate was blighted.”
― Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, 二哈和他的白貓師尊

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“Wei Wuxian didn’t care. He chuckled aloud. “He can ignore me all he wants. It’s not like he’s even that pretty.” But then when he thought about it, yes, the boy was indeed that pretty. So he nonchalantly tossed that pouty feeling to the back of his mind.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

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