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This book is so dense someone send help.

- “Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.”
- “Big histories are always best told through insistent, if humble, details.”

“Here I was, face to face with a nameless painter reaching from the dark to show me what he could do, saying to me as clear as any words, 'If any part of me survives from time's corruption, let it be this. For this was the sort of man I was.'”

“We spoke harshly of the Spaniards who, in their zeal for gold and converts, had needlessly extinguished the native Indians. It did not occur to us that we, too, were the captains of an invasion too sure of its own righteousness.”

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a good shovel.”

Murder! Incest! Suicide! Whole families getting poisoned! This book really has it all

Lines that go hard for no reason: “If they do not bring us peace we will give them war; if they do not bring us life we will give them death”

Slow and steady wins the race

Here’s where the fun begins