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“The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.”
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“A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?”
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“In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...”
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“Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.”
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“Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.”
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“... there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.”
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“... one is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”
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“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados — we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.”