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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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Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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.
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...
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.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.