"If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death."
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"To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life."
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"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."
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"Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about."
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"Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching."
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"There's no greater misfortune than dying alone."
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"One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them."
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"Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore."
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"She felt the abyss of disenchantment."
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"Be calm. God awaits you at the door."
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"For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying."
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"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
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"I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life."
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"The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets."
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"Inspiration gives no warnings."
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"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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"Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel."
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"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
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"Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."
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"This soup tastes like windows"
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