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“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
― John Updike

“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“Desigur, viata [...] e, pentru un scriitor tanar, o prada care nu cedeaza daca nu stii de unde sa apuci.”
― Marin Preda, Viața ca o pradă

“[...]istoria, acest fluviu care inainta spre necunoscut, si al carui capat viu simtisem atatia ani ca eram eu, aveau s-o faca altii, mie imi ramanea doar acest teritoriu de cucerit si singurul cu care puteam s-o influentez: cuvantul scris. Nu era mult, dar nici putin.”
― Marin Preda, Viața ca o pradă

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden