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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.
• The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep…
• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
• Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
• Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
• The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
• The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
• The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
• I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

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