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"The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!"
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"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher " her asabikeshiinh " with its willow-web and invisible 'lady spider' apparently weaving her spells " an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed."
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"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."
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"Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon."
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"Noble fathers have noble children."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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"Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for gnomeatic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.Baz is looking at Penny like they've never met."And, Penny goes on, "she defended your father in three duels before he accepted her proposal."That sounds barbaric, I say."It was traditional, Baz says."It was brilliant, Penny says. "I've read the minutes."Where? Baz asks her."We have them in our library at home, she says "My dad loves marriage rites. Any sort of family magic, actually. He and my mother are bound together in five dimensions."
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"Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence."
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"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."
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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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"Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on snow-white sheets; it was the benediction of a pristine pedigree, refined through ages of selective breeding and the occasional mercy culling.It was life, and death, and all that spanned between.It was his birthright."
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"In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell."
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"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."
Desire


"Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood."
Literature


"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."
Obsession


"It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa."
Culture


"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
Travel


"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey


"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition


"The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman."
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"I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand."
Journey
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