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" 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. "

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" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" The best actors do not let the wheels show. "

" 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. "

" There are no small parts. Only small actors. "

" Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. "

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

" I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. "

" Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

" True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "