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

— 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.

Forward to Miriam's Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets (2000)

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

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

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

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

Home is understanding and being understood.

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

Writing and culture are very much related to the possibilities of the human imagination. The capacity of language allows the imagination to flow and to transform and mend the world.

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

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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