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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

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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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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel 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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

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