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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death 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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
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 writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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