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“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
—Jacques Roumain (19071945)
“A mans character is his fate.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535c. 475 BC)
“I do not set my life at a pins fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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