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Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble'"."
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La necesidad de una mujer que cure la soledad del asesinato --dijo el emperador, rememorando--. Que borre la culpabilidad de la victoria o la vanagloria de la derrota, aquiete el temblor de los huesos, enjugue las lagrimas calientes del alivio y la verguenza. Que nos abrace mientras sentimos la marea menguante de nuestro odio y esa forma de bochorno aun mayor a la que da paso. Que nos rocie con lavanda para ocultar el olor de la sangre en l..
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But it's not as simple as that," he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. "If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so," he thought, "they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposite..
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We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.
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The city's streets coiled around him, writhing like serpents, London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future. He wandered i..
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Despues de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdiccion en lo concerniente a mi salud.
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alejamiento
desamor
escape
huida
salud
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The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.
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Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when he stopped breathing the bees stopped buzzing and the air silenced its whispers and Yuvraj understood that the story of the world he had known all his life was coming to an end, and that what fol..
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And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into her - because Reverend Mother doled out the curries and meatballs of intransigence, dishes imbued with the personality of their creator; Amina ate the fish salans of stubbornness and the birianis of determination. And, although Mary's pickles had a partially counteractive effect - since she had stirred into them ..
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You observe ... that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
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It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.
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They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best.
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I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born .... I am the meaning of your deeds. I am the meaning of your so-called love; your destructive, selfish, wanton love ... your love looks just like hatred.
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Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes.
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I don't want to take the women into the city until I know how things stand.' ' I'll tell you precisely how they stand,' Nicolo bitterly replied. 'The absolute ruler of this city is a Medici. The Pope is a Medici. People round here say that probably God is a Medici and as for the Devil, he's definitely one, beyond any doubt.
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Strakh't be nai-vazhniiat posev za godinata, nadvisvashe ot plodovite dr'echeta vmesto iab'lki i praskovi, a pchelite go s'birakha vmesto med. Izpod pov'rkhnostta na plitkata voda na orizishchata izbuiavashe g'st strakh, a iz shafranovite polia strakh kato uviven buren zadushavashe delikatnite rasteniia. Strakh't zatlachvashe rekite kato voden ziumbiul , a po visokite pasbishcha bez vidima prichina izmirakha ovtse i kozi. Rabota se namirash..
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Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.
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Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious, base.
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From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.
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Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
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fighting
jealous
jealousy
love
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what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight...
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Yes, I know there is a fashion nowadays for these Hitler's-valet type memoirs, and many people are against, they say we should not humanise the inhuman. But the point is they are not inhuman, these Mainduck-style little Hitlers, and it is in their humanity that we must locate our collective guilt, humanity's guilt for human beings' misdeeds; for if they are just monsters - if it is just a question of King Kong and Godzilla wreaking havoc un..
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collective-guilt
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She was my ground, my favorite sound, my country road, my city street,
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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroes, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd." --
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averroës
fatwa
free-speech
history
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literary
memoir
religion
secularism
terrorism
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Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
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He wanted, for example, to investigate why one should hold fast to a religion not because it was true but because it was the faith of one's fathers. Was faith not faith but simple family habit? Maybe there was no true religion but only this eternal handing down. And error could be handed down as easily as virtue. Was faith no more than an error of our ancestors?
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When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.
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The self was both its origins and its journey.
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It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton
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Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.
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But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her admiration for Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi. That got in the way, especially because he told her of his skepticism regarding the guru industry, and suggested she might profitably read Gita Mehta's book Karma Cola. "Why are you so cynical?" she asked him, as if she genuinely wanted to know the answer, and he said that if you gr..
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To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.
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Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.
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free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.
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There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child.
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Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said."
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He settled into the Chelsea apartment as best he could with everything in his life in turmoil -- no permanent abode, no publishing agreements, growing difficulties with the police, and what was to happen now with Marianne? -- but when he turned on the TV he saw a great wonder that dwarfed what was happening to him. The Berlin Wall was falling, and young people were dancing on its remains. That year, which began with horrors -- on a small sc..
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The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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I'm not a geopolitical entity. I'm someone writing in a room.
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