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“In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.”

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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

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There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

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“Liberté mon seul pirate.”

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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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“like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight”

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“the forest remembers that the last word can only be the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm”

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“and no race has a monopoly on beauty, on intelligence, on strength”

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