Their Eyes Were Watching God
Si vraiment l’homme qui aime une femme devient son esclave comme Pyrrhus ou son bourreau comme Néron. Si vraiment l’Afrique et ses solitudes et son ciel bleu répondent à l’enseignement du maître de géographie.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry • Courrier sud (French Edition)
If the place assigned to the lily is really as unfortunate as possible, so that it can be easily foreseen that it will be totally superfluous all its life, not be noticed by a single person who might find joy in it; if the place and the surroundings are—yes, I had forgotten it was the lily of which we are speaking—are so “desperately” unfortunate,
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Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pal
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