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“Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.”
― Bryce Courtenay

“I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate.”
― Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy