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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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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
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
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman

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