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" Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. "

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

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" Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. "

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

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" 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. "

" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? "

" Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. "

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" The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. "

" Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. "

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