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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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"The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations."

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"Brokenness a result of bitterness."
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"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."


"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."


"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."


"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."


"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."


"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."


"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."


"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
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