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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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