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“Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?”

— V. Y. Mudimbe

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“Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an “other” among others.”

“A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil.”

“Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.”

“I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.”

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