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The book is man's best invention so far.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Carolina Maria de Jesus
Age: 63 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 14
Died: 1977
Died: July 27
Autobiographer
Journalist
Poet
Waste Picker
Writer
Carolina de Jesus
Bitita
Invention
Best
Book
Men

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we are slaves to the cost of living.
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I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.
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Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.
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[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.
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We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.
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A child is the root of the heart.
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a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.
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