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For governments come and go, but peoples endure.

— Boualem Sansal

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I write for a certain idea of freedom, truth and human dignity.

The dialogue that carries us from knowledge to awareness, and from awareness to commitment.

To be free in my mind means you must also be physically free, able to use your own body.

Not a commitment born of anger or resentment, but a mobilization of minds and wills in the service of the common good.

The struggle for freedom requires, first and foremost, a practical commitment.

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