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" You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss. "

Ingrid Betancourt

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

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

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" As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving. "

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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. "

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

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" I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come. "

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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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" I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion. "

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" In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations. "

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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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" 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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" You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.' "

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" I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena. "

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" I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light. "

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" I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable. "

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

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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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" I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war. "

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" I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive. "

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

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" During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released. "

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

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" I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency. "

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" I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity. "

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" In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation. "

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