You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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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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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
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I find myself fascinating.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
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I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
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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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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.
