"The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting."

-- Jacques Roumain

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“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”
“... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.”
“Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Don't come home a failure.”

Source : Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.”
“Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.”
“I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.”

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