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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he

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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 o

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

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

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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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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only rea

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

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A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, i

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left

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

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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an out

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Optimism is the opium of the people.

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