"If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances."

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A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

— Guy de Maupassant