“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“There is no story that is not true.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
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