"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness."
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"Knowledge does not keep any better than fish."
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"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"
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"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."
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"All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating."
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"[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice."
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"Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people."
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"There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time."
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"There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like."
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"Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires."
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"The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”"
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"Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them."
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"An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies."
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"An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it."
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"Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person."
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"Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine."
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"The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?""
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"Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day."
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"Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does."
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"I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally."
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