In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
“Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded”
“My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..”
“Can you become a man without becoming your father?”
“In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.”
“Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.”
“How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.”
“A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.”
“We are...two open pages of the same book”
“One's nature is like a mountain”
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Book Keywords:
human, nature, grief, libya, echo, nationalsim, man, baba, father
