"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

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Companionship, Animals, Afterlife, Loyalty, Love

"Us is my favorite people."

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Companionship, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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Companionship, Needs, Emotion, Gender

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Companionship, Relationships, Sexuality

"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."

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Companionship, Friendship, Time, Longevity, Loyalty

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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

Absence

"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."

Being

"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."

First

"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."

Work

"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."

Artist

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Company

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."

History

"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."

Culture

"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."

Machine

"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."

Being