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... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
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...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361
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Anys was so skilled with plants and balms that she knew how to extract their fragrant oils, and these she wore on her person so that a light, pleasant scent, like summer fruits and flowers, always preceded her.
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No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
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If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
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Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.
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Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
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And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
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I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.
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