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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski