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

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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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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

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