“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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“If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“У морфиниста есть одно счастье, которое у него никто не может отнять,— способность проводить жизнь в полном одиночестве. А одиночество — это важные, значительные мысли, это созерцание, спокойствие, мудрость…”
― Морфий
― Морфий
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