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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Nadine Gordimer

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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 don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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