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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. "

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

Human Condition

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Change The World

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

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