The book of air and shadows Quotes

“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”

“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?”

“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. ”

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.”