"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

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"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."

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"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."

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"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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"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."

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"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."

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"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."

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"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."

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"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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"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."

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

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