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• Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
• For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even…
• Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
• Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
• Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
• Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
• I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
• Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
• Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
• If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
• In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If…

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