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" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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

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

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

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

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

" A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

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

" 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. "

Change The World

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Human Condition

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "