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“In their books I read unflattering accounts of my history, and because they were unflattering, they seemed truer than the stories we told ourselves. I read about the diseases that tormented us, about the future that lay before us, about the world we lived in and our place in it. It was as if they had remade us, and in ways that we no longer had any recourse but to accept, so complete and well-fitting was the story they told about us. I don’t suppose the story was told cynically, because I think they believed it too.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea

“Der Reichtum gleicht dem Seewasser: je mehr man davon trinkt, desto durstiger wird man. - Dasselbe gilt vom Ruhm.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Anything worth doing transcends borders.”
― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand