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" I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. "

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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. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

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

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

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

" A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. "

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

" No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. "

Human Condition

" 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. "

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

" Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. "

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

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

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

" To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. "

" I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. "