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“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays
“One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty, the love of the eclectic, the love of what they were supposed to love. Ifemelu imagined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
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