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Marlene van Niekerk

(1954) Poet

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Marlene van Niekerk is a poet.

Quick Facts About Marlene van Niekerk

Born: November 10, 1954
Profession: Poet

About Marlene van Niekerk

[Wikidata] South African author... | [Wikipedia] Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet, writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy Triomf (1994) and the Hertzog-winning Agaat (2004), which explore themes including the family, the change in power dynamics occasioned by the end of Apartheid, and inequalit

Quotes by Marlene van Niekerk

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not…

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Able

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“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life…

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Declaration

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“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”

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Butterfly

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“First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the…

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Butterflies

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Marriage is holy and it's private.

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Holy

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“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip…

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Identity

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“After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after…

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Hope

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“In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.”

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Death

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Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

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Beautiful

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“Nature is subtle and complex.”

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Life lessons

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We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

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Life

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“..did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain…

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“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

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Existence

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