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Don't raise your head so high holy Europe, don't be so proud of your civilization and your Christianity when you don't even have a pure heart or a clear conscience.

— Lyuben Karavelov The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (2011)

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