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“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
― The Wide Window
― The Wide Window
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.”
― Baudolino
― Baudolino
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