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When We Were Orphans

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“Poverty in your mind is ignorance.
Poverty in your heart is bitterness.
Poverty in your soul is arrogance.
Poverty in your life is foolishness.

Wealth in your mind is intelligence.
Wealth in your heart is happiness.
Wealth in your soul is excellence.
Wealth in your life is blessedness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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“Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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“Literature is frightening when it reaches the heart, gut and mind of the reader.”
― Roberto Saviano, La bellezza e l'inferno: scritti 2004-2009

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“We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

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“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

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