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The most important revolution the first one: the soldier exchanged for the heart and the intellect.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Sony Labou Tansi

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Born: July 5, 1947
Died: June 14, 1995 (aged 47)
Bio: Sony Lab'ou Tansi, born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
Known for:
  1. Life and a Half
  2. The antipeople (1988)
  3. The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (1995)
  4. The Shameful State
  5. Parentheses of blood (1985)

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