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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
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"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."
"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
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