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Quotes by Chilean Authors
"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."
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"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."
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"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."
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"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
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"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
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"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
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"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring."
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"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
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"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well."
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"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
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"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
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"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
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"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
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"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."
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"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted."
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"During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland."
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"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
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"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."
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"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."
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"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
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"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
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"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power."
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"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
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"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."
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