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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer

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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Country Courage Joy Know Left never Now Other People Really Think
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While

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