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“Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.”

“The breakfast that my mother had prepared just like she used to, the melancholy atmosphere of the beginning of autumn, my uniform… everything reminded me of the beginning of school.”

“…we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable… once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”

“When you see your parents rarely, all is forgiven.”

“If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”

“The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules.”