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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."

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"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."

"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."

"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."

"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
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