imagery relating to land and place has re-emerged with renewed socio-political orientation.
“They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.”
― Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
― Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.”
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“Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions”
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