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prohibition of this, of that, with not a day passing that did not bring its fresh vexation and disclose the Viceroy poking his Voltairean nose into the business of religion.
“I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. ”
― The Lion in Winter
― The Lion in Winter
“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”
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“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
― The Physicists
― The Physicists
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it plunges us into an endless void, because today's reality is destined to prove delusion for us tomorrow; and life doesn't conclude. It can't conclude. Tomorrow if it concludes, it's finished.”
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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