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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.

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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

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