“How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?”
Gillian Rubinstein Tales of the Otori
Source: Across the Nightingale Floor
“Nationalism is so beautiful for nationalists. At the same time, you are really opposed to the unification of the world.”
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