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

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

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

" 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. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

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

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

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

" All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Human Condition

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

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

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

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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