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"The greatest poverty is the inability to dream."

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“The language of the other, suddenly, is the great instrument for creating an identity of one's own.”

"We do not inherit only a country. We inherit the responsibility to imagine it."

"Identity can only be spoken of in the plural."

"A writer does not create a world; he discovers the worlds hidden inside people."

"Every language carries a way of seeing the world."

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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