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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.

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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
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
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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

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