". . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better."
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"There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity."
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"At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before."
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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it."
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"There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world."
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"Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time."
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"The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world."
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"Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence."
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"The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation."
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"Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination."
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"To see the world is to judge the judges."
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
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"I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all."
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"If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality."
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"It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence."
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"It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them."
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"We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it."
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"I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world."
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"The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed."
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"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."
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