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- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in…
- The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
- A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not…
- It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the…
- More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a…
- We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,†than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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