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Literature does not claim to make soldiers drop their weapons. But there is something in the act of writing that can help.

— Kossi Efoui

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African writers are not here to testify to so-called African realities.

Dictatorships are more afraid of literature than writers are.

When life is difficult, when one does not dare to say everything, the poetic act certainly does not heal, but it can give one the strength to continue.

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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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