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Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
9 quotes
“Boredom, I do not know what it is, no doubt because I read; I read slowly, a lot, often taking notes; I never engage in a debate, even a literary one, without having sufficiently informed myself on the subject.”
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“A book is not written for oneself; it is written to be read, to spark thought, and to create a dialogue between the writer and the world.”
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“To write is to refuse silence in the face of human suffering and injustice.”
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“Life is a series of nameless absurdities, a desert of decay where men cling to futile and vain things upon which they build their hopes.”
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“Understanding is the source of all true and lasting friendship.”
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“The condition of women worthy of the name of mothers is that their whole life is a long waiting and a patience that will end only in death.”
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“We are all strangers on earth, searching here and there for the path to true happiness.”
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“It is not easy for a people to promote their culture as long as, politically and economically, they are not masters of themselves and their affairs.”
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“It would not be improbable to find, among Black people, spiritual forces from which white people could benefit once their Aryan superiority complexes have disappeared.”
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source