"I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion."

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Source : Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margarita Engle

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“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

Source : Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”
“For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.280, Macmillan
“"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.”
“Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.”
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
“If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?”
“Fame overcomes everything.”

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