“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”
— Paulo Coelho, book The Zahir
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