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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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