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I think that memory is a form of translation. What motivates the artistic expression of poets and fiction writers, essayists and painters is memory. But memory is also very complicated because it consists of what one chooses to remember.

— 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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