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"You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!"
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone."
"If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind."
"It is terrifying, said Adrian. "And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows well, part of you knows something's not right. That your thinking's not right. But what do you about that? All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?"
"When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want."
"Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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