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Beer in the Snooker Club

by Waguih Ghali

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Jasmine’s Quotes

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

tags: identity, nationalism, religion

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“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

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“A woman's writing is always feminine; it cannot help being feminine; at its best it is most feminine; the only difficulty lies in defining what we mean by feminine.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

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