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

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Human Condition

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

" 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. "

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" 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

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. "

" 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. "

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