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For me, literature works exactly the same way: everything human beings write is useful.

— Tété-Michel Kpomassie

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When two people look at each other for a long time, they are trying to see beyond appearances.

In my books, I have always remained an observer, never a judge.

It is truly insulting that people came and destroyed all this and imposed other ways upon us, even down to the way we think.

Describe rather than dictate: that is a lesson I learned from Gustave Flaubert.

All liberation comes from within. It is for Greenlanders to lead their own struggle.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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