Writing, at its best, is a process of discovery, a way of both piercing and preserving a mystery that, by nature, cannot be clarified.
-Patrick Modiano
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It is better to say 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.'
--Simone Weil
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A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
--Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.
--Bertolt Brecht

