"In the end, everyone loses everyone."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”
“Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?”
“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”
“There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.”
“As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.”
“If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you”

Source : "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

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