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Emile M. Cioran

"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

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"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

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"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."

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"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."

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"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."

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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

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"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."

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"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

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"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."

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"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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