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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

"Imagination is phenomenal."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."


"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."


"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."


"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."


"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."


"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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