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

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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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
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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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety

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

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