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"There is quite a bit of anger here, an anger at the very doom which provides the plot, at the imprisonment in myth which the novel has taken as its fictional and historical field. The anger isn't paraded, doesn't gesticulate, and of course many of the imprisoning myths have enormous charm anyway. They allow one to stay human in the prison, but then the charm is also one of the prison's most terrible strengths."

"Already in our memories a fictitious past occupies the place of another, of which we know nothing for certain - not even that it is false"

"Solitude is a way of losing others and the world, but may also be a way of finding them. It was in just this sense that Proust spoke of books as the work of solitude and the children of silence."

"The writers of the Boom discovered, as if for the first time and all at once, that the world is a fabrication and full of delirious improbabilities but, alas, still real enough...."