I’ll try and write a review for this masterpiece of a book in some time. But before that, a couple of memorable quotes.
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‘There is no particular wisdom in the East,’ [Qara Köz / Angelica] said to Argalia. ‘All human beings are foolish to the same degree.’
The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
Niccolò Vespucci, or Mogor dell’Amore, to Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan
(From The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie)
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