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

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Human Condition

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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