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4391 Novelist Quotes

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Youth Assert Conviction Nothing
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Worst Tragedy Poet Admired
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

He Affected Insult Infected
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Emotion Work Art Value
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Day Birth Death Walk
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The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

Map Life Road Choice
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

We Shelter Angel Guardians
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all

Anyone Experienced Ecstasy Betrayal
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What Need Hatred Ideas
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Beauty Ugliness Developing Purest
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse Dreams Youth Young
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Achieve Harmony Height Elegance
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Man Dream Order Darkness
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Power End Shadow Image
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Object Revolution Liberation Ideology
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Time Reasoning Past Fight
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Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life Begins Other side Despair
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lost Battle Thinks
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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We do not judge the people we love.

We Judge People Love
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Important Questions Life Oneself
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist

Definition God Freedom Exist
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Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

Death Nature Form Immortal
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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Poetry Emergency Justification
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Write Poems Poets Words
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Want Things Decent Human being
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live

Characters Events Begin Live
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society
People Illusion Live Society
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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Ordinary man Curse Civilization
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The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

Dead Live Love
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Risk Death Night Live
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You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form

You Act Believe Boasting
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Wolves Hunt Lone Myth
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Art Murder Words Heart
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The world began in hazard and will end in it.

World Began Hazard End
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There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

Reasons Write Create World
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Tragedy Man Courage Good
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Fight Selfishness Brutality Shame
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