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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
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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 don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."

"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."

"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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