“Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.

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Before going away...

My children often ask me: “What writer are you, Dad? We never see you writing.” I myself feel this bewilderment: I am embarrassed when someone turns to me with that byname: in the midst of my “co-fellows” I feel uncomfortable as a stranger. And indeed, among so many authors of thick books and voluminous works what writer can I, the author of sentences, be?