A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

Chinua Achebe

Mots clés life-philosophy



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A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

Chinua Achebe


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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Chinua Achebe

Mots clés proverb



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Women and music should not be dated.

Chinua Achebe


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When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Chinua Achebe


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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Chinua Achebe


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Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

Chinua Achebe


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I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them

Chinua Achebe

Mots clés 1975 from-morning-yet-on-creation-day



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Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Chinua Achebe


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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Chinua Achebe


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