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I am a whore, and I am paid very well for building high-rise buildings.
I would rather be right than consistent.
We cannot not know history.
I don't believe in principles, in case you haven't noticed.
Literature is the memory of humanity, and without it we are nothing.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
The past is always changing. Every time we remember something, we alter it slightly, until eventually, our memories become stories we tell ourselves.
We all want to be told stories, and we all want to tell stories. It's one of the things that makes us human.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Every morning I wake up in a bed that's not mine, in a house that's not mine, and I live the life of a man who's not me.
We are all exiles from someplace, even if it's from our own childhood.
La memoria es el único paraíso del cual no podemos ser expulsados.
The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
O amor é uma companhia. Já não sei andar só pelos caminhos, por já não poder andar só. Uma visível companhia faz-me andar mais depressa e ver menos, e ao mesmo tempo gostar de ir por aí. O amor é um modo de me perder.