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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
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"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature
"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
People
"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
Destruction
"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
Life
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
Truth
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
God
"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."
Family
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
Ability
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
War
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