Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.

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

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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

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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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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.

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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

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