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I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the i...more

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You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you...more

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One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: t...more

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One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.Why is it so difficult to assemble ...more