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

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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.

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Lies crushed day and night become truths.

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Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.

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

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

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

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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