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" Why all this waste, why does Shamil continue when common sense says that we will win, when common sense says that they are resisting all that would be good for them?'
'What good?' She was sullen now, the arguments narrowing around her.
'What good?' he snorted. 'Peace for one, prosperity too. Modern roads, sanitation, education, enlightened thinking. Everything that is uncouth and reprehensible to be replaced by what is civilised and rational. No one in his right mind, given a choice, would choose primitiveness over advancement. You can't live in the past, Anna, you can't be like them. "
― Leila Aboulela , The Kindness of Enemies