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Quotes by Novelist
"We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious."
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"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
47
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
46
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
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"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
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"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
45
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
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"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."
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"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
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"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
43
"As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead."
42
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
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"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."
42
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
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"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
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"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."
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"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
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