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Like many writers before me, I believe in coincidence and, sometimes, in the novelist's gift for clairvoyance- the word gift not being the right one, for it implies a kind of superiority. Clairvoyance is simply the part of profession: the essential leaps of imagination, the need to fix one's mind on detail-to the point of obsession, in fact, so as not to lose the thread and to give in one's natural laziness. All the, is tension, this cerebral exercise may well lead in the long run to flashes of intuition concerning events past and future, as defined by Larousse dictionary under clairvoyance.
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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July 30, 1945
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