"To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own."
"When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations."
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Source: Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company
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