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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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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
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
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
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way

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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