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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
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
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

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