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“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“In a place like Auschwitz, where everything is designed to make you cry, a smile is an act of defiance.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Life, any life, is very short. But if you've managed to be happy for at least an instant, it will have been worth living.”
― Antonio Iturbe, La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz