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

Human Condition

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" 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. "

" Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. "

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

" He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. "

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

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

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

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

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

" Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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