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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
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"Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings."

"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

"Don't be imprisoned by others perception of reality."

"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening."

"... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves..."

"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."

"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."


"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."


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


"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."


"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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