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– The Friedenspreis Acceptance Speech, 2003; republished in At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, 2007

“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

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