Amadou Hampate Ba quotes
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“In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.”
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
“Every old man that dies is a library that burns.”
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“Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.”
-- Amadou Hampate Ba
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“His speech is a burning fire.”
Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.77, Cambridge University Press
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“I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.”
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“What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.”
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“I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.”
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