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" Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. "

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" The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. "

" The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. "

" The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. "

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" He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. "

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" No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. "

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" No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. "

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" Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. "

" Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

" Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. "

" Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. "

" The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. "

" There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. "

" Man's world is the planet of inexperience. "

" Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. "

" A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. "

" To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. "

" All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

" Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. "

" Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. "

" There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. "

" Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. "