In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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Lies crushed day and night become truths.

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Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

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But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

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Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.

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He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.

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Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.

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