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“… You may live here, but you know it is temporary and that sooner or later you will return to your own country, to better conditions and a worthier life. You will wake from this nightmare and be freed from it, but we never shall be, for it is the only life we have.”

“From his childhood a man may dream like this about great cities and glorious battlefields, but the real, decisive battles for the preservation of his being and the realization of everything concealed instinctively within it, must be fought wherever destiny happens to cast him, in who knows what narrow, nameless space with no splendour or beauty, with no witness or judge.”

“All right, but until I am convinced, allow me to stand by my view that both the ill-will and the goodness of a people are the product of the circumstances in which they live and develop. It is not goodness that drives us to build roads, but the need and desire to extend profitable communications and our influence, and many people regard that as ‘ill-will on our part.”