The Man from Beijing
Henning Mankell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The evil always comes from details.”
“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”
“The truth changes all the time.”
“There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.”
“The truth is never simple. It’s only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.”
“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.”
“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.”
“New ideas are always resisted.”
“Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence.”
“Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.”
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