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“Once you’ve got women and a border, a story can write itself. Even women on their own are enough. Women are stories in themselves, full of stirrings and whisperings that float on the wind, that bend with each blade of grass.”
― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

“We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence

“And at school there was little or no time for those other stories, just an orderly accumulation of the real knowledge they brought to us, in books they made available to us, in a language they taught us.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea

“Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer