Quod volimus credimus libenter
we always believe what we want to believe

Robert Harris

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The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

Robert Harris

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He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit.

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Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

Robert Harris

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Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.

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Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

Robert Harris

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From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

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Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

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Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.

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He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.

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