"Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us."
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"One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do."
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"Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction."
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"Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
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"Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow."
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"Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are."
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"Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women."
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"There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it."
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"just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution."
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"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."
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"Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?"
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"I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it."
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"For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this."
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"A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little."
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"Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions."
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"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
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"This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it."
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"If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life."
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"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
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