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• It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's…
• Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.
• The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different…
• Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from…
• If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to…
• Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.
• Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.
• How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
• If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.
• It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer…
• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only…
• The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

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