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"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."

"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."

"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."

"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."

"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."

"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"

"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."

"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."

"I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life."
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