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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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