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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

V.S. Naipaul

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

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