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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

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.”
― Antonio Iturbe, La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley