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“Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naiv…” — George Steiner
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
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