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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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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
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 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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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

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