“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“To live without you, only that would be torture."
"A day alone, only that would be death.”
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"A day alone, only that would be death." by Charles Addams?
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