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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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The writer is all alone.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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The world is always in movement.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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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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