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Veils of Smoke

by Sarah Key (Goodreads Author)

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" VEILS OF SMOKE by SARAH KEY

It is always such a pleasure to read a good fiction book based on familiar stories in one’s own country. The setting in Alexander, Sandton, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Kgoši Mampuru C-Max Prison was real, vivid and almost palpable. ...more "

Nov 05, 2020 10:31PM · see review

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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

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― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

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“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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― Bertrand Russell

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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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