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“[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)”
― The Art of the Novel
― The Art of the Novel
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
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