Then help us.”“ I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“ Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“ Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?”“ You try. Anthony Doerr
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