No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

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