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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."
"The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness."
"Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand."
"We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us."
"Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification."
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for."
"Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top."
"At the end of faith there is always some calamity."
"In love the brain is situated in the heart."
"A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions."
"Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer."
"Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next."
"A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness."
"Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave."
"Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist."
"Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them."
"A bad friend secretly plots your downfall."
"Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure."
"If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love."
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