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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V.S. Naipaul

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling 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
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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