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Quotes by Chilean Authors
"During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland."
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."
"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted."
"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
"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."
"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."
"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."
"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring."
"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well."
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."
"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 made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."
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