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“We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.” - Georges Simenon

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"If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature? Of course no one speaks anout an exact mirror. No one even thinks of asking the new literature to have a mirror-like impassivity. The deeper literature is, and the more it is imdued with the desire to shape life, the more significantly and dynamically it will be able to "picture" life." - Leon Trotsky