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“Mimì never forgets to see the beauty in life.”

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

“It must certainly be considered true that once a work leaves our pen, it no longer belongs to us.”

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

“The beauty of art is in our imperfection.”

“To me justice doesn't mean looking for the criminals. It means looking for the innocent.”

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”

“Only God can judge me now”

“If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

“Of all things, I liked books best.”

“Show must go on!”

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

“The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway!”

“Poets are here to disturb the status quo.”

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”