“When the Japanese repair broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”
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Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.
Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account (via quotespile)
