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

— 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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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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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.

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