Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

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