"My father loved to use a manual razor to shave rather than an electric razor because that way he was forced to look at himself in the mirror every morning. Looking at his own face every day, if ever there was a need, helped him convince himself that certain things just couldn't be done."
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Fiammetta Borsellino, quoted in Fiammetta Borsellino: «La verità su via D'Amelio? 25 anni di omissioni e menzogne», Corriere.it, 13 September 2017
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Paolo Borsellino
1940 – 1992
Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (1940 – 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo.
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