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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
― The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
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