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Hello everyone.

My question is about punctuation.
Look at the passages below. The following is a passage from an article about Magritte.

One of his famous paintings is a pipe with the words �Ceci n�est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe)� written under it (2). A friend of his told him, �Of course this is a pipe.� Magritte answered, �Can you smoke this pipe? No, this is not a pipe; this is a picture of a pipe.�

Should a comma have been placed both before and after �Ceci n�est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe)�, because it is a direct quotation?

This may seem a trivial matter to native speakers of English, but it sticks with me as a non-native.

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fwkk8769

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