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

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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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" Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. "

" 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. "

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

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. "

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

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

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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

" In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. "

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