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“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”
― Italo Calvino

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
― Umberto Eco

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.”
― Salman Rushdie

“faith without doubt is addiction”
― Salman Rushdie

“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“A book is not completed till it's read.”
― Salman Rushdie

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Is birth always a fall?”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Umberto Eco, Baudolino

“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.”
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana