What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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