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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World

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