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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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 still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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