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The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

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It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

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Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

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You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

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The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

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Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

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