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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom

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