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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."
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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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