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" Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. "