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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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