“Time is still too complicated for us to comprehend and we cannot define it using our wristwatches, nor by using the big clocks on the wall.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

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Congolese author 1996

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Context: But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings—
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!—
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