But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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