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" We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable. "

Ingrid Betancourt

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" The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting. "

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" The relationship with time changes when you're captive. "

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" I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages. "

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" I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object. "

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" When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are. "

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" Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications. "

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" France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart. "

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" We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that. "

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" The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war. "

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" I love Colombia's military. I love my country. "

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" On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living. "

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" The voice of the Holy Father was like a light. "

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" I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings. "

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" In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life. "

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" In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness. "

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" These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children. "

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" A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye. "

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" I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle. "

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" It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through. "

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" In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage. "

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