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What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?

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I'm surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that's what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.

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A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself.

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Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.

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Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.

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