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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. - Nadine Gordimer
" "Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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About Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.*, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".[1]
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Odd in-between period which sometimes inserts itself into historical time when not only the later historians but the actors and witnesses, the living themselves, become aware of an interval in time which is altogether determined by things that are no longer and by things that are not yet. In history, these intervals have shown more than once that they may contain the moment of truth.
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