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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."

"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."

"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."

"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."

"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."

"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."

"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."

"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."

"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
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