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

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" 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. "

" Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I find myself fascinating. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Human Condition

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" 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. "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" How goodness heightens beauty! "