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I should like to ask you: can one learn this without forgetting that, and is what one learns worth what one forgets?

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

At the heart of the moment, behold man as immortal, for the moment is infinite, when it is. The purity of the moment is made from the absence of time. Life of the moment, life without age of the moment which reigns, in the luminous arena of your duration man unfurls himself into infinity.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Born: April 3, 1928 (age 97)

Bio: Cheikh Hamidou Kane is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë, about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a Fulani boy who goes to study in France.

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