Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
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