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

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Change The World

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Human Condition

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

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

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

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

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

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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

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