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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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