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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
― Italo Calvino

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham