Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939), p. 13
“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”
Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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Aimé Césaire 10
Martiniquais politician 1913–2008Related quotes
“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
Source: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
“Beware: the Government Is Armed and Dangerous.”
Source: The Libertarian Alternative, (1977), p. 12
“Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.”
As quoted in Good Advice (1993), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 215
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012
Variant: "Beware the man of one book."
See also: Homo unius libri
Disputed
Variant: I fear the man of a single book.