"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is."
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"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
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"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects."
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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
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"Only in the present do things happen."
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"If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library."
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"Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within"
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"Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor."
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"Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts."
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"The central problem of novel-writing is causality."
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"From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me."
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"A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word."
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"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
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"Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details."
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures."
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"While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one"
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"i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive"
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