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“And look, my brother, we learned to talk very quietly and simply. We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more. And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler; we’ll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs figs , and a…” quote by Yannis Ritsos
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““And look, my brother, we learned to talk very quietly and simply. We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more. And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler; we’ll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs figs , and a trough a trough , so that others will smile and say: ‘We’re making you a hundred poems an hour’ . This is what we want too. Because we do not sing to separate ourselves from people, my brother, we sing to bring people together.””

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