If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
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- Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
- We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
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