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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.

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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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