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“Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Apart from trade, the main form of interaction between nations is war.”
― The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
― The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
“The American dream was to create our own destiny, but it's perhaps an ethical duty, as a human being, and as an American, to consider that our American dreams may have come at the expense of a million other destinies.”
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren't there, which may be the same thing.”
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
“Survival, though, means more than going on. It means understanding the past and finding a way to subdue it, to reconcile it, to overcome it.”
― The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
― The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
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