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"When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

Gao Xingjian, Chinese Novelist
Existence, Mind, Words, Writing
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"When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."

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"Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality."

Michael Arlen, American Writer
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