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• I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
• Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to…
• I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to…
• It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so…
• Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that…
• We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.
• Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and…
• Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
• The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
• The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness.…
• For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
• You have to live with your mind your whole life.

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