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“She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.”
― The Muse
― The Muse
“I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I’ll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I’m being selfish. It’s perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.”
― The Muse
― The Muse
“When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.”
― What if there were no whites in South Africa?
― What if there were no whites in South Africa?
“Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life.”
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Beneath memory and forgetting, life.”
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“I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one—this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.”
― Year of Wonders
― Year of Wonders
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