But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.
Simon Sebag MontefioreNecessity is very often the mother of romance.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: relationships attachment needs affections
Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to this city's asylum, suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a madness of anticipation, disappointment and delusion.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: disillusionment disappointment
The discipline that aims to be objective and scientific can be used to rationalize religious-ethnic prejudiced and justify imperial ambitions. Israelis, Palestinians and the evangelical imperialists of nineteenth century have all been guilty of commandeering the same events and assigning them contradictory meanings and facts.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: rhetoric prophecy exegesis
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: culture-wars cultural-differences red-state-mentality
What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divided.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: culture-wars cultural-differences red-state-mentality
The European upper-class could not decide if the Jews were a noble race of persecuted biblical heroes, everyone a King David and Maccabee, or a sinister conspiracy of mystically brilliant, hook-nosed, hobbits with almost supernatural powers.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: zionism anti-semitism
The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.
Simon Sebag MontefioreLove was not thunderbolts but a meandering river, an accumulation of accidents, the momentum of details.
Simon Sebag MontefioreThe bedroom is the one place you can truly be yourself.
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