“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows str… - Mariama Bâ

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“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love."

Mariama Bâ

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About Mariama Bâ

Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages.

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Alternative Names: Mariama Ba

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Honoré de Balzac E. M. Forster William Somerset Maugham Guy de Maupassant Pearl S. Buck

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Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

In the face of misogyny and injustice, the only hope is escape.

Whenever he felt himself beginning to fancy any girl, after the Ouleymatou experience, the memory of her mocking indifference and his own disillusionment had made him fiercely determined to nip any emotional attachment in the bud.

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