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Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

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Jacques Roumain

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

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You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

Cluster, Clusters, Easy, Grapes

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.

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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

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Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

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Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

Heart, Men, Giving, Sensitive, Life, Appearance
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