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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society

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