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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto."
"Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny."
"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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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."
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
"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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