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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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