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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.

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Continents of memory had been lost.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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