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“I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Pride and Prejudice • Jane Austen“No date. The day had no date.”
Diary of a Madman • Nikolai Gogol“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth • William Shakespeare““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