Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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To survive, you must tell stories.

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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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