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" As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. "
Jose Saramago
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" In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. "
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" In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. "
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