“Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”

—  Chinua Achebe , book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 24 (p. 186)

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Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

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