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The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Zoe’s Quotes

“Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It’s only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you’ve survived.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

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“Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

tags: colonialism, other, post-colonialism, self

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“I mean you no harm, except to the extent that the sea is harmful when ships are wrecked against its rocks, and to the extent that the lightning is harmful when it rends a tree in two.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

tags: harm, nature, self

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“The ships at first sailed down the Nile carrying guns not bread, and the railways were originally set up to transport troops; the schools were started so as to teach us how to say "Yes" in their language. They imported to us the germ of the greatest European violence, as seen on the Somme and at Verdun, the like of which the world had never previously known, the germ of a deadly disease that struck them more than a thousand years ago. Yes, my dear sirs, I came as an invader into your very homes: a drop of the poison which you have injected in the the veins of history.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

tags: colonialism, post-colonialism

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