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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.

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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.

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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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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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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.

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

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Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: April 1st, 1929

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