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‘If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed…’
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‘We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive…’
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‘When you have something to say, silence is a lie…’
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‘Books are the mirrors of the soul…’
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