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

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

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Optimism is the opium of the people. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

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

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

" How goodness heightens beauty! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Human Condition

" 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. "