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I was finding myself forced to acknowledge that the limit of my imagination was by no means the limit of the world.

— Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees (2015)

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Love - the greatest connection to humanity when everything else is falling apart.

With a man, life is difficult. Without a man, life is even more difficult.

The fact that the Bible says [homosexuality is] bad is all the reason you need. Besides, how can people be fruitful and multiply if they carry on in that way?

Under the Udala Trees (2015)

Hardly have I finished speaking the words, and she vanishes, the way that people sometimes do, even from our minds.

In all the ways he can love you, I promise to love you better. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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