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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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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Life Privations Thing Risk
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Life Hard knocks Sure Yourself
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Write Read Fiction Change
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

We Make Lasts Outlives
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Truth Love Life Heart
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What you risk reveals what you value.
What Risk Reveals Value
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love Desire Reason Temptation
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do it from the heart or not at all.

Do Heart
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Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Pain Maimed Creature Mouth
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Rebellion Art Death Life
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to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Change Understand Nature Evil
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Accept Life Ordinary Shape
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The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Impulse Worship Eradicate Something
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Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love Strength Reliable Rising
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Fate Hang on Moment Changed
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

True What Fear Find
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I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Important Whatever Time Safe
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Love Drown Kills Neglect
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Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
Love Experiment Happens Surprising
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Death Mystery Life Suspenseful
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The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Life Had Nothing Important
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Success Harmful People Talent
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Wreck Sick Life Health
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Cliche Life Mountain Top
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Knowing Live Death Life
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Life doesn't end at 30.

Life End
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Live Poer Terror Art
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If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Trapped Idea Image World
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Vitamins Death Bay Deterioration
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Ethical Moral People Truth
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Beauty Sex Human being Emerge
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change

Woman Age World Changing
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Pretty People Worry Aging
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Give up Importance People You
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Idiotic Life Death Say
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I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I Feel Guilt Wish
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Life Land Hope Work
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Like Idea Life Work
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Success Liberation Love Story
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead

Waves Life Easy Death
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We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

Settle Disputes Eliminating Human beings
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