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343 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
"The Germans had Schiller, Goethe, Gelderland, but the Simbas of the Congolese had nothing. The difference between the Germans, heirs to an immense culture, and the savage Simbas is that the Simbas ate their victims, whereas the Germans turned theiers into soap. This need for cleanliness, that is culture."
"You've already tasted it a thousand times, luv," says Florian with a trace of impatience. "I don't know what you can still be expecting from their, really. It didn't solve your problems, luv. Do remember, you were even more unhappy than before."
"And consciousness suggests a human being. Human� And I was very worried. God's limits are well known, they are not too great, but for man they are limitless, and he is capable of anything."
"In a world that is waiting for its own creation, anything is possible."