Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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Birth: | 23rd November, 1920 |
Death: | 20th April, 1970 |
Nationality: | Batswana, Romanian |
Profession: | Poet, Translator |
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