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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

"Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book."
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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."

"Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns."

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."

"Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it."

"The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life."

"Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking."
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