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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Literature has become my life.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.