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

Morality, Knowledge, Existence

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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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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Friendship, Virtue, Vice, Influence

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Morality, Solution

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Sacrifice, Conflict, Ethics

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Value System, Pulpit, Culture, Faith

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Self, Betrayal, Sin, Regret

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"Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What did he, that most devoted friend, know about Stravinsky's capacity to love? And where did he get his utter certainty that the heart is ethically superior to the brain? Are not vile acts committed as often with the heart's help as without it? Can't fanatics, with their bloody hands, boast of a high degree of "affective activity"? Will we ever be done with this imbecile sentimental Inquisition, the heart's Reign of Terror?"

Morality, Heart, Evil, Act

"Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul, the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice."

Romance, Love, Connection, Soul, Attraction

"The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future."

Literature, Novel, Spirit, Past, Future

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

Happiness, Temple, Laughter, Sound

"All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests."

Solitude, Marriage, Voice, Peace

"It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made."

Prejudice, Reason, Emotion, Gender, Mind

"Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love."

Loyalty, Love, Man, Relationship

"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 reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Time, Future, Past, Life, Change

"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."

Escape, Life, Freedom, Desire

"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."

Boredom, Desire, Routine, Alienation