"Leo Africanus" Quotes
The life and adventures of the 16th-century traveler Leo Africanus, who journeys from his North African home to Italy and beyond, are vividly brought to life in this historical novel.
historical fiction | 370 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
We are all of us creatures of the stars.
I am a stranger, and I have no friends.
The only way to bear the unbearable is to turn it into a story.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
He who fears will suffer, he already suffers because he fears.
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
The more I love, the more I hate. The more I hate, the more I love.
I have no country, no home, no master, no God. I have no dignity, no face, no family, no name. I have no faith, and I want no faith.
Hate is the starkest, most enduring and deadliest of human emotions. It is also the most powerful.
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
