But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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