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Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

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A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

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Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

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Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk

Born: November 10, 1954 (age 68)
Bio: Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf.
Known for:
  1. Agaat (2004)
  2. Triomf (1994)
  3. The Swan Whisperer: An Inaugural Lecture (2015)
  4. Memorandum: A Story with Paintings
  5. Agaat: Roman

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