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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.