„He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.“

— Pablo Neruda

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„Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.“
— Colette