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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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