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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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