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

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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

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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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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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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: April 1st, 1929

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