Chinua Achebe citations

„La vraie supériorité du blanc, ce sont ses larmes.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Un esprit faible reste faible dans sa vieillesse et un esprit fort perd sa vigueur en vieillissant.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Le châtiment de l’exil doit se dérouler sur la terre maternelle.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Un village n’est pas fait d’une poignée de héros, mais bien d’individus nombreux.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Un coeur fier peut survivre à un échec général parce qu'un tel échec ne blesse pas son orgueil. C'est plus difficile et plus amer quand un homme échoue tout seul.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Il n'y a rien à craindre de quelqu'un qui crie“

„L’homme instruit prend conscience, à mesure qu’il vieillit, de l’immensité de son ignorance.“

„Si un homme est privé de sépulture, le clan est rempli de mauvais esprit qui en veulent aux vivants.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„On ne doit pas mourir pendant la Semaine de paix.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„Il est impossible de dissocier les pratiques profanes des pratiques religieuses.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„There is no story that is not true, […] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.“

Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
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„People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.“

— Chinua Achebe, livre Le monde s'effondre

Variante: The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)
Contexte: "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

„Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.“

„Nobody can teach me who I am.“

„Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.“

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

— Chinua Achebe, livre Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

„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.“

Variante: 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.

„While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.“

„If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’
If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.“

— Chinua Achebe, livre Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah