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“I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“ “Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.””
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind • Yuval Noah Harari““Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf