In every human being there is a blessed soul made miserable by the pursuit of happiness. (p69)
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1916–1973 Haiti
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (born Marie Vieux; September 16, 1916 – June 19, 1973), was a novelist, poet and playwright who was born and educated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
What a hymn to life, this work born from suffering! (p31)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
Amazing how love cancels out all other feelings. (p23)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
His fixation with power gnawed away at him. (p100)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
The sentences coming out of him displaced those scrolling under his eyes in the book. (chapter 8)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
What am I running away from that I so drunkenly welcome this glimmer of love in my life? (p56)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
I am like a fruit fallen before ripening, rotting under the tree unnoticed. (p4)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
She refuses to understand the march of history, its twists and reversals. (p15)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
The eyes, if one knows them well, rarely lie (chapter XXII, p342)
Dance on the Volcano (1957)
Self-discontent, that is the venom that feeds malice. (p147)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
One thing remains true: hatred only breeds hatred. (p126)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
He opens our eyes on new horizons and unveils a mysterious, unknown world to us. (p65)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
It is with my hand and with my heart that I write, not with my eyes
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
The stars multiply, separate, and scatter. Everything comes to an end and then starts again. (p67)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
My cozy bourgeois upbringing is like a tattoo on my skin. (p18)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (1968)
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