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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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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
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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