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"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."

"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."

"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."

"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."

"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."

"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."

"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."

"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."

"You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living."

"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."

"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power."
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