Arianna Dagnino Quotes

• “Muscles relax, the mind expands. The vastness enters into the skin like a shot. ‘Our’ time dissolves.”

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• “While the smoke of the dagga slowly rises into the night, the rhythm of the women’s clapping begins to accelerate. Zoe sees the two men listening intently to that far-away call. Tongues of fire light up their rapt faces, throwing hallucinatory shadows against the bush curtain.”

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• “Prison taught me a lot, including things I wouldn’t want to learn. Helplessly witnessing torture, death, the loss of human dignity, the abyss of bestiality our fellow humans can fall into. All this destroys something inside you – something that shouldn’t even be touched.”

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• “Your fortress becomes a prison once you have swarms of desperate people pressing at the gate”

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• “Unsure about its place and identity, a whole nation was made to believe that ethnic pride and culture could only descend from race.”

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• “The ‘Buffaloes’ were becoming a legend. The Colonel had forged them into a superb fighting machine […] Enough for a young hothead like me to want to be one of them [...]
  Sam pauses and looks for a moment into the sparkling fire. The scar on his jaw glistens against the dark skin like broken glass [...]
  You slowly fall prey to a sick frenzy. You develop a lust for blood. You even begin to enjoy killing.”

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• “We can accept each other and be together without giving up our differences. It’s useless – even foolish – to reduce us to a common denominator.”

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• “At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.”

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