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183 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1963

"[T]he very notion of a work created for the expression of a social, political, economic, or moral content constitutes a lie."
"The work of art, like the world, is a living form: it is, it has no need of justification."
"Might we not advance... that the genuine writer has nothing to say? He has only a way of speaking."
"[T]he novel is not a tool at all.... It does not express, it explores, and what it explores is itself."
"Why seek to reconstruct the time of clocks in a narrative which is concerned only with human time?"