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"Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."

"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."

"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."

"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."

"You are created to reflect heaven on earth."

"I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK."

"As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time."

"Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself."
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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."


"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."


"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."


"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."


"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."


"Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice."


"Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."


"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."
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