On Love:
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
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There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
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On Life:
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outl
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
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On Happiness:
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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On Optimism:
Optimism is the opium of the people.
On Knowledge:
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.