André Brink quotes
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“To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.”
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“I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.”
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“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
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“When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.”
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“If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.”
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“Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.”
-- André BrinkSource : A Dry White Season epilogue (1980)
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“If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.”
-- André Brink
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”
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Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
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“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”
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