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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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