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Ernesto Sabato
“By the light of your premise, theme or subject precedes form. But as you make some progress with the writing, you'll see how the expression enriches, or reciprocally creates, the subject, until in the end it becomes impossible to separate them.”
Ernesto Sábato, Abaddón el Exterminador

Jean Genet
“I had greeted the revolt as a musical ear recognizes a right note.”
Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love

Jean Genet
“Even now - they'll never grow up - Japanese potters still play with accidents. Whether it arises from the clay, the wheel, the kiln or the glaze, they watch out for any irregularity and sometimes even emphasize it. In any case they use it as a starting point for a new adventure. The shape and colour may be perfectly classical, but spoiled by a scratch or being under- or over-fired. So they pursue and develop the flaw, struggling fiercely, lovingly with and against it until it becomes deliberate, an expression of themselves. If they succeed they're overjoyed: the result is modern. Never Tunisian. But not many Swiss bankers take up with Japanese potters.”
Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love

Ernesto Sabato
“And sooner or later that incorruptible universe wound up looking to him like some sad simulacrum, because the world that counts for us is this one, here - the only world that wounds us and pains us and makes us feel our terrible loneliness and hunger, but also the only world that gives us the fullness of existence, this blood, this fire, this love, these hopes for death. The only world that offers us a garden at twilight, the touch of a hand we love, a glance cast on putrefaction, but our own putrefaction: warm and close, carnal.”
Ernesto Sabato, Abaddón el Exterminador

Ernesto Sabato
“The dilemma is not between social literature and individual literature, you all understand... The dilemma is between the serious and the frivolous [...] Yes, it's true, by far the greatest number of them write for secondary reasons [...] But there are still the others, the few who truly count, those who are serving out their dark sentence of giving word to their drama, their perplexity at this pain-wracked universe, their hopes in the midst of the horror, or of war, or of solitude...”
Ernesto Sábato, Abaddón el Exterminador

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