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“Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.””
Essays and Aphorisms • Arthur Schopenhauer““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“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens““Everything you say to a person is filtered through his frames of reference, biases, and preconceived ideas.””
Surrounded by Idiots • Thomas Erikson