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"Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing." Franck Ribery

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"Even the tourists gathered / round the docent, the same / jokes & half-truths, / loom beautiful—" Kevin Young

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"The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and the condition of being the truth is to transform your suffering with great creativity and compassion into forms and deeds that empower others to do likewise in their own ways." Cornell West

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