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Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

by Kalpana Ram

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“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

tags: english, language, south-africa

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“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

tags: boccaccio, clarity, mind, power, read

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“Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”
― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea

tags: awaken, poetry

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“You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped”
― Bertolt Brecht

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