"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."

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"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."

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"Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone."

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"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind."

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"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one."

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"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."

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