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Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience w...

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I ...

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned...

Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fasci...

There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the r...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from ...

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - t...

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with w...

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolle...

Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illu...

I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existentia...

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.

That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings o...

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tel...

this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres,...

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the ...