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The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical desert, but to live as an exile in one's own heart.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
"The poem is not a closed field, but an open one."
I am not a storyteller, but a story-maker.
It’s not about being able to do something, it’s about being able to do it well.
"History is not just about events, but about the emotions and thoughts of those who lived through them."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.
True courage is not the absence of fear, but moving forward in the face of fear.
True freedom is not about doing what you want, but about not doing what you don't want to do.
"A story is not just a sequence of events, but a web of emotions, thoughts, and experiences."
"A writer is essentially a person who writes not because he has to, but because he cannot not write."
"I am not interested in the individual, but in the whole."
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
"In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
"真正的自由不是没有束缚，而是在束缚中找到自己的方向。"
真正的自由不是没有束缚，而是在束缚中找到自己的方向。
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
"A writer's greatest tool is not the pen, but the heart and mind that guide it."