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Translations are like crossings of borders, crossings of landscapes, crossings of voices.

— Marjorie Agosín Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

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The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrations.

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To write is also to bear witness, to resist the dehumanization of the world, and to tell and reveal.

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Since the earliest history, poetry and the spoken word have been the pulse of human civilization.

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Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.

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Home is understanding and being understood.

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