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Rusesabagina had been brought down by hubris — his deluded conviction that it was he

— Odette Nyiramilimo

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Source: He really came to the idea that he had saved those 1,300 people, Odette Nyiramilimo said (The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2021)
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