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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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It is very easy to love alone.

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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

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History takes time. History makes memory.

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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no...

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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Art

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Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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