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“After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this poor muscle and buried it in Poland. A dead person is treated either as trash or as a symbol. Either way, it's the same disrespect to his vanished individuality.”

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Book:Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

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“For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.”

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Book:Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

Source: Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts