"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners."
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Source: Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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