Marlene Van Niekerk Quotes

#1. In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

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#2. Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

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#3. After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.

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#4. Marriage is holy and it's private.

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#5. A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

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#6. Nature is subtle and complex.

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#7. Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

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#8. First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

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#9. E all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

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#10. Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

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