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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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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.
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
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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.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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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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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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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.
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