International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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