The job of books is not to help those who are unable to live life to provide alternative lives, but the opposite. No book is valuable if it does not take the reader's hand towards real life, even if it is not in the service of life. The hour of reading is a wasted hour if it does not give the reader a boost of strength to continue living, a sense of renewal, and a whiff of energy." -Hermann Hessian I have always asked myself: Would I continue to write if they told me that a cosmic catastrophe would destroy the world tomorrow, and that no one would read what you wrote today? The first answer that will jump to my mind will be: "No"; why do I write when no one will read me? My instinct will say yes, just because I always hold on to hope, a star may escape this cosmic catastrophe, and someone may emerge in the future who can decipher the marks I have placed within my work. In this case, writing, even hours before the end of the world, will become meaningful. -Umberto Eco
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