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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

by Tamim Ansary (Goodreads Author)

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A State Built on Sand: How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

by David Mansfield

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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

by Andrew Scott Cooper

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Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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Only lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has altogether forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it can so completely forget in turn that it was a butterfly that it can become a fish. Deeper ...more

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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